Poison

Poison

You're a disease,
I can't find treatment for.
You burned my soul
and shattered my heart.
How could you walk away,
not feeling the way we use to.
How could I love
a beast like you?
Why can't I just let you go,
why can't the time go any faster?
My heart is ripping apart
slowly dying inside.
Only you can make it stop,
only you can put it back together.
Should we continue to pretend
or am I just desperate to hold on?
I look back at all the memories,
I still see your smiling face
and how you looked at me
in love.
Now I just see hostility and rage.
What happened to us?
Why am I blamed
for your insecurity?
Why am I accepting your cruelty?
Each night I cry,
but my tears have become
invisible to you.
You embraced a w***e
in our bed.
You beat the woman
that was your other half.
How could you treat me this way?
I've been poisoned
by your mistreatment.
I can't see straight anymore.
When times moves on,
I know my heart will be strong.
When the rain stops pouring,
I'll start learning
to be the woman
you suppressed from me.
Tonight, I will embrace
my broken self
and find ways
to gain the broken pieces
of what is left of me.
Three years . . .
and the vows that we made,
I guess they never meant anything to you
anything at all . . . .

24 September 2008
(c) Chong N. Kim

Reviews

[Adela Muresan]

I like the realistic way you reflect pain in verses.
If you ask me, I think you should make a tintzy bit smaller, but it's still kowel.

A.M.