Me: Inside Out

He asked you to save him

And you did

You took a blade to his throat

And finished the cut at the end of your own

Oh the foolish things

one must do in the name of love

Are you righteous or toxic?

To be of one in spirit, yet fragile in mind

To let the sins of flesh

taint your experiences with love

You chose death over forgiveness

Rage over understanding

No explanation could serve validity of any kind

For true love is never at risk of infidelity

in your mind

How idiotic you must have felt

To allow his heat to warm the inner most workings

Of your thighs

As he sang new nothings into your eyes

Deafening you into naïveté

Your world spun on his axis made of lust and lies

And you believed the location of the truth

Was hidden in his swallows

What a travesty it was to discover

That he kept his love tucked

underneath his tongue,

to learn is wasn’t for you but for another

A righteous killing followed by a faithful sacrifice

His world was your home

So you believed it made no sense

for him to die alone

Oh the foolish things one believes must be done

In the name of love

For what is love without tragedy?

Black lives matter.

All Black lives matter.

Be elevated.