Just Breathe

Your honey suckled lies

Slid out of your mouth

With a hint of jealousy coated on them

Hands filled with hatred

Touch upon my skin

Welts show up from your

Barbed wire fingers

All because i was his

Before you could paint my soul

Black like your own

Before the time when truth or dare

Would take away my innocence

I was someone with ambitions

Fiercer than your torments

I could have conquered the world

Before you made me a pawn in yours

I was a queen

In the game of chess you called your life

But i knew my chance of winning was slim

You wouldn’t let anyone take me

Unless it was played by your own hand

Years flew by like wings of a hurricane

But no matter where I hid

You won our cruel game of hide and seek

I use to dream of being on top

Of the world, of my goals

But not on top of you

Yet you positioned me there

Like your prized possession

Yet, your touch turned me

From gold to dust

The hurricane wings took that dust

And that is when i lost myself

Sometimes a broken heart can’t be mended

From the way life threw a brick into it

Shattering it into tiny sharp shards of ache

And sometimes the soul is crushed

When that very same brick

Lands on it, weighing the weight of 1,000 regrets.

Sometimes the brain loses the ability

To send the signals that allow you to move

Causing the body to forget,

Forget just how it used to live.

Sometimes the mouth forgets it has a voice

And the silence becomes so loud

The ears swear they have gone deaf

And begin to grieve the sound of life.

The heart might beat again

And a voice could be found

But my soul went with you