you hid under the veil of sacristy
A false room of self-righteous prayer that cast out the small demons that fancied to destroy me piece by little piece
By pieces, like a psychopathic person ripping off a live insect’s arthropod parts one by one; a half-assed liquidation
That left my head halfway cut off
Still expected to behave and talk without throwing up blood. I was the Jezebel
As you cheated worse than the Whore of Babylon
Complaining you didn't get to mess around but still relentlessly taunted me that I was not enough
Throwing me down, ripping out my hair in chunks
Yet you refused to give birth to a new nation that could create rather than toxically defend themselves
Only attack, as a cuckoo bird slips into the nest like a serpent
Eating the home, gutted out
Guts strewn about, in its stomach
Wormy, slimy, bloodless
Your Angel anger was demon repentance
A half-assed case, wherein the lock broke off the key was poorly made
Never to be opened
Unless smashed into my skull
Dreams that shattered the game of
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Comments (4)
Lovely one from you.
Woah! I felt this. "As you cheated worse than the Whore of Babylon" - actually made me "woah" out loud.
Gosh this was so freaking intense! I devoured your poem!
I'm sensing some bitterness. 😉 Well writ, Melissa!