Pierced Pain: The Aftermath

Your

(patronising, condescending,

dismissive

and

just a little hypocritical

words

p—rising open my

-i—nsides draining

--e—very strike

---r—eaching deeper points

----c—an't breathe, can't

---e—ven do anything except lie here

through

my already wounded, failing heart

(of your inception, divination, creation)

like

darts

through a balloon

(blood red burst on the pale)

*

~I~

*

Your

all-facade-all-lies-no-substance

form of love

(is it love,

really love

if it's filled with nothing but hate?

Well... is it? Is. It?)

leaves me

--d—angerously

-r—unning low on oxygen

y—earning to breathe

as highlands

in a drought

*

~am~

*

Your

c—austic

-a—nneal

--l—ayer upon

---l—ayer

--o—ver my

-u—ncovered

--s—kinned and

-e—mpty

d—ead heart

affection

(infection, infliction, affliction)

leaves me

covered in

s—peaking of love, when you don't know how to show it

-p—leasing no other, but yourself,

--l—eaving a desert, a sand dune of misery

---I—nside and out

----n—ever once admitting fault or showing care

---t—rading heartfelt words with you, was just a chore

--e—very time, I lost myself a little more

-r—aped my confidence, my esteem

s—craped and scarred my core

sharp

like the quills of a porcupine

*

~through~

*

Your

non-existent-dearly-bereft-dead

care

(do you?)

and

attention

(are you even listening?)

seals my fate

like a black cat

crossing my path

*

~with~

*

Your

walking away,

as

d—own low

-e—mpty

--e—mpty

---p—lace

as the gap

it created,

was like a key

that opened

the door

to a new future

for me, not us,

for me

not

*

~you~

*

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