"How could
honesty
be so hard?"
She asked while
biting her tongue
back & refusing to
stand on her feet.
"It makes so
much sense now,"
she thinks as
she lays a feast
of brutal truths
before boys who
were too cowardly
for the same.
YOU ARE READING
The Empress Rises
PoetryYou broke me before you even knew what it meant to break, stood back & watched me go up in flames. Don't mourn for long; you'll need your legs when I rise from the devastation you laid.
