
My tongue bears the weight
of taste buds that look like
cracked hearts spelling your name.
There’s a flame in my throat,
burning from the feathers
you plucked from the wings
that once made my heart soar,
but I don’t choke up tears of
wishing you were here.
I suffocate on the weakness
you nailed into my bones
with your broken hammer
promises and plastic nails
that told lies on my skin.
There are days I can’t breathe
when I remember the sweetness
laced smile you used to shine
for only me and the sugar glazed
look in your eyes turned sour.
I wanted to write about the ease
you used when you broke me,
but I’ll never write the words
that anyone broke me.
I can’t boost your ego by letting
you believe you had that power
or any power at all over me.
You were a tightrope
I was never afraid to walk,
the echo of a roar from the mouth
of a pissed off lion, the sky that turned
from a starry night painted dream to
a nightmare on the street of my storm.
I walked your tightrope with my hands tied,
when the breath of your roar
tried to cut through my heart,
my roar was loud enough
to shatter yours,
and the sky that you pretended to paint
was never more than an empty canvas
I painted my thunder on.
So you never broke me, darling.
My love was the storm
that made your knees weak
with your own broken hammer
and you ran for your life,
seeking shelter in the plastic sky
of your worst fucking nightmare
you won’t wake up from.
The weight on my tongue
is my own thunder’s roar,
lashing out lightning you can’t see,
because your sky is a lie
that didn’t fall for those broken
feathers you tried to feed me.
I’m breathing the moonlight.
My heart soars with the stars
you can’t make wishes on
and the night tastes like honey,
a thickness that coats the flames
in my throat to set fire again
to the dreams in my eyes.

Stephanie you are so brilliant.
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This whole poem is a roar, a lioness proclaiming her own power.
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Indeed it is ❤
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Stephanie roars
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