I will not succumb to your song
Your enticing melody that calls me to you
I will not lean into your words
Your words that force me to believe in everything you say
I will not choose to believe your tall tails
Your lies about what you are and how it will be
I will decide to protect my peace instead
I will savor the warmness and comfort of being me
I am dragged down the rock embedded road
Tearing and ripping at my skin as you slide me wherever you go
It cuts me up and shows all my flaws through the cracks
Everything is so wide open making me feel that everyone can see
You are not there to pick me up but to laugh your way through my pain
You stomp on me until you know I am a shell of a person that will succumb to you
You gave me an inch of you to only snake back a foot
Saying you will be there and then leaving completely and refusing to call
You showed me love to only turn it into a blue hate
You said I love you and when I say it back you ran
You slowly made me realize that you being a good person only went so far
It was all just a show for your job but not really who you were
You found a way to find more flaws so you can find another reason to walk away
You tried everything to blame it all on me when you were the cause
A burning pain that only you can subside but instead you stir the flames higher
Not caring that each flint was burning into me and burning away who I was
It eats away the woman I chose to be
The good person and the happy person inside
It eats away the person of light
It eats away ME
You eat away at me as I succumb to your Incubus ways
You don't even acknowledge that I am in pain from what you find normal ways
I'm the shell of a human I once was but will choose to go past it
About the Creator
Tabitha Hinkley
I love poetry. I'm doing an autobiograpHy and a series. I love hiking and being in nature, love swimming with my 3 dogs, and being in the mountains, art, into fashion and love cooking. I work at a hospital as a CNA.
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You hurt...that person makes you hurt...you love..,and that person still makes you hurt...then you realize that you're hurting..that hurts even more...and they walk away and don't care that you're hurting that's the most brutal pain...But coming out of it is the prize and the strength and the pleasure...It's called healing.... keep writing (You're a prize)
Sort of like the Hulu Jings in Chinese. Love it. COOL