scar tissue
stream of consciousness
c i c a t r i z e d
heart
m o m e n t a r i l y
succumbs to
malleability
e x p e r i e n c e
lends it
no use
disregarding
e x p l o s i v e
firings of
w a r n i n g
s i g n a l s
it beats a
rogue tune
an
i g n o r a n t
song
cloaked in
hope
time after time
l o n g i n g
shrouds
the
w o u n d s
voluntarily
laid upon
your altar
s a n g u i n e
yearning
for
t h r e a d s
of
c o n n e c t i o n
to suture the
f i s s u r e s
w e l d e d
deep
graft the
g o u g e s
p u n c t u r e d
in innocent
n a ï v e t é
b l e e d i n g
out
pulses
of hope
l a c e r a t e d
perpetually
as a
s c a l p e l
of
v i t r i o l
slowly severs
another
c h a m b e r
backflow seeps
through the
n e g l i g e n t
cut
spilling as a
s a c r i f i c e
to the
t i t l e
you hold
while you
play
the chords
murmured in a
f a m i l i a r
c h a o t i c
tune
r u p t u r i n g
the
valve of trust
you
n e v e r
earned
and
this rogue
heart
m u s t
s u r r e n d e r
to the
painful
p r e s s u r e
of memory
c l o t t i n g
the
h e m o r r h a g e
slowly
diminishing
to a
d r i p
as a
f o r t r e s s
of
scar tissue
t h i c k e n s
around the
s h a t t e r e d
fragments
i n f l i c t e d
by delusional
desires
and
forgetfulness
of your
c a r e l e s s
disregard
for my
h e a r t
About the Creator
Kristen Balyeat
Words fly to me on the wind, bump into me as I'm strolling the city, splash me in the face while I rest by the river, and shake me awake in the middle of the night—I’m humbly one of the vessels they use to come to life.
Also, i love you:)
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Wooohooooo congratulations on your honourable mention! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congratulations on your placement and your TS! 🎉🎉
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Incredible. I love the way you stylized certain words. It’s very impactful.
Congratulations on your top story
Congrats on top story!
Congratulations on Top Story. This was an amazing and a lingering journey of words and emotions. Well done.
so cold and so beautiful, vividly good!
This gripped me from the first word and dragged me through an image-scape as raw as it is delicately intricate. So powerful and yet so vulnerable!
This is spectacular! I loved the flow and style of this, plus the words themselves just draw the reader all the way through. Congrats on the Top Story!
Interesting
🙌 Your word choice and the exploration/application of the metaphor are both superb! Congratulations!
Congratulations on top story
There ya go. Congrats on the TS.
Congrats, lovely poem!
No matter how much you try the heart just won’t listen. But this line this rogue heart m u s t s u r r e n d e r to the painful p r e s s u r e of memory c l o t t i n g the h e m o r r h a g e Completely knocked me off my feet in amazement.
Congratulations on your top story! Excellent work. The stripping of pain and trauma here is palpable.
Thought I'd read this already. Wonderful, if completely flooring and painful. So very intense, evocative, as ever. Did you feel a relief and release when you wrote this...seems like you would have. Well done and congrats on Top Story.
Intense imagery in parts, but even more lashings of pain all throughout..😔 Very evocative, Kristen.. you must be so exhausted after writing this. Thank you for sharing and baring as always! 💚 😌
This is beautifully written. Well done, my friend.
Well-wrought! Stories are not the same from the inside, as from the outside, however. So what comes to us on the wind is not the experience of the knower, but the scent of its decay filtered through our own perceptual awareness. This axis where experience meets experience is the very essence of beauty, and you do justice to the vision here!
This is actually hard to read because every line is heavy with so much meaning, and I want to linger on every line, or every word really! It challenges me to engage with it properly, and that mreans it flows differently for me 😁
Such a beautiful and unique style. The pain screams from your words
Kristen, the pain is brutal, the healing long, the scars made into something beautiful
Perfect. Every word, my friend!