Her eyes twinkled like stars
With such darkness underneath
The bags under her eyes
Labelled; heartache and pain
Her bright smile stretched across her face
Almost contagious to everyone around her
She was the wind
Free and uninhibited
Floating wherever the current takes her
Mistaken for a statue
Sculpted features and sculpted words
Carefully chosen like the colors used to paint her walk
Her tongue weighed down
By swallowing selfish wants
She is a gentle breeze
But thinks she is a hurricane
Coming in soft and leaving a stormy mess in her wake
She is the lilt of a songbird
But is convinced she is the ravens call
Threatening and cold
Who dared to rob her from her beauty
Convinced gold it was bronze
Took the silk from her walk
And the honey in her voice
She is the embodiment of love
With stitches lining her chest in jagged cris crosses
And her heavy tears cemented on her cheeks
She only wants to be loved
But feels undeserving
How can you convince a lake that it is truly an ocean?
You hide like the stars on a cloudy night
You shy away, keeping to yourself
Your pain shines through your eyes
But your smile paints a false sense of contentment
My name is tattoed on your tongue
But you dare never speak it
When you catch a glimpse of me your eyes glimmer
But you never grant yourself the pleasure
Of letting your glance linger
I can see your inner struggle
What a shame it must be to be a slave to your own ego
To deny yourself one of the greatest pleasures in life
To rather be miserable in your own personal prison
Than to allow yourself to feel the warm embrace of a woman
I will continue to be the white in your smile
The light in your eye
And the music in your voice
Until your heartbeat begins to sound like my name
And your footsteps begin to sound like my laugh
And your clothes clinging to your skin feel like my touch
I will always be the waves crashing into your shore
You can recede all you like
But i will always come crashing into you
Because we were made to collide
I light my cigarette with hands shaky like the branches of trees on a winters morning
Thoughts of you flooding my mind, drenching the once was desert of my subconscious
I am uncertain
Uncertain if the love that once shone as bright as the north star, visible from anyplace on this earth, still exists;
if the candle you once held inside my heart has long lost burned out
If your smile still causes millions of little butterflies to fly around my chest, proving to me that they’re still alive within the empty wasteland
Or if they’ve found a new place to call their home
I bend but never break
You once thought i was a rubber band
Trying to stretch me beyond my limits
To hear that snap echo through your mind, knowing finally that your purpose has been fulfilled
But i never break
I am an amazon
Strong, and a goddess in my own sense
I am the sunlight that peeks into your rooms in the morning
Crawling into your bed with you, keeping your lonely side of the bed warm
But not with my body like you unconsciously desire, but with my newfound liberation
I keep it warm with my light as a reminder
That i never break but only bend
That my light never dies for i am the sun
That my voice is like violin strings that could fill an entire arena
That my smile could warm the coldest of hearts
And That my laugh sounds like a lilting song
You will but only become a faded image
Like a forgotten memory of an acquaintance, face blurred and out of focus
And it seems like a meere echo in your mind
You will become the bug on the windshield of my life, not even acknowledged as an obstacle
But i will forever be burned into your heart and mind
Your greatest failure
Your attempt of robbing me of my light, only helped me find it
For i never break
I only bend
