Thursday, 12 June 2025

Sweat drips from my brow

 


Icy sweat drips from my brow,

an ice queens teardrop

mixing with the rivers of hurt

that flow beneath.

How

was I ever going to rise again?

I buried myself

so many miles under the ground

the day you skipped town.

 

Memories seared into my skin,

tattoos of when things

didn't feel so strained.

When the storm clouds

above didn't rain.

When love wasn’t just a word

said to fill the empty space left

upon the unfulfilled page.

When love was

a memory of brighter days,

when love lifted me

into the daffodil sunlight rays

to feel the soft touch of their petals

against my heart.

 

The day you left my heart

empty and bereft

you also took any hope

I had stored in the cavern in my chest

and set it alight,

a raging fire of who I was,

embers of me

drifted away that night.

The knot in my stomach

rose to my throat.

Choking my voice, cutting the air.

And I didn't care.

I didn't feel I had

anything left for anyone to hear.

I was a faded dream

that was already frozen and stale,

I had nothing but a desire to fail.

 

Icy sweat drips from my brow.

Years later now

and I look out at the crowd.

I hear my voice, loud and proud.

I hear my words saying how

I feel like a flower

reborn in a new spring.

The pain of that day

was replaced by the love

that I was always missing.

The love you never gave,

and I realised that

I didn't miss a thing.

 




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