The night it happened
I didn't know what it was
A feeling of
Unwholeness;
Broken and
Shattered and
Unable to fit back together like
I once was
Getting out of that shower
I was a new person I think
Because the world
Suddenly
Shone in a new harsh light
She wanted to take you from me
She told me
"If you don't want him,
I'll have him"
And no
No
I wanted you
I got into that shower to
Be clean but
All I ended up doing was
Sitting with my head between my knees
Staring at the water running down
The drain
When I got out of that shower
With a new identity
I listened closely
Intently
To my chest
While I didn't know
What that feeling was
It was just the beginning.
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"untitled" - A life in poems
PoetryI refuse to let my family read this, but hey, why not all of you? . . . I've been wanting to post this for a while. This was my English final, in which I wrote 18 poems detailing 18 important points in my (then 18) years of life. Most of these are...
