Trusted You

written in '10. another one that just kind popped out of my notebook and figured I'd share it.

The soft breeze carries a bitter metallic taste
in your wake
a steady plip plop
of congealing slime
echoes under your hand
step by step you go
never mind the chaos
you've left behind

Clutched in your ruthless hand
crushed tight in you dirty grip
lies a hopelessly beating heart
ripped from it's cage of bone
bleeding, flailing chains
that once held it in place
wave to the rhythm of your stride

convulsions take your hand
the muscles collapses beneath the pressure
crimson seeps between your fingers
failing soundlessly to the floor

When you walked away
that's what I saw
I felt the knife, twisting and reaching
deep inside my ribs
that's what I knew
when you refused to stay
you ripped my heart out
and kept it with you
leaving me no where to start anew

and it was all
because I trusted you

Reviews

[Pax Analog]

Powerful, literally heart-rending. Love incandesces commitment, & when the other is not true in Spirit, it can be devastating. Both a true romantic and a true spiritual path summons and demands all. Unfortunately, the world has many egoic game players of either gender, who half the time don't even know what they're doing. Yet the voice of this poem is all in, for keeps, & that's an integrity no one can take away.