MORE THAN ME.

Two poems. Two emotions. One heart.

Words

Every time you try to drown me

With the force of your words

I feel the air rushing out of me faster than lighting

The breath escaping my porcelain lips

That are so fragile that I dare not speak nor use my tongue

Though my lungs cry out in agony for what has been taken from me

I fight against the pain that I feel filling up in my mind

Lashing at my entire core and threatening to swallow me whole

My muscles contracting at the way your dug into me so effortlessly

Made up of a dozens of letters and expressions

Your words still cut

Each like knives twisting and slicing

Into my soft center

However the more you say

And the more that you carve into me

The less I feel

Until I lose all sensation- all the feeling in my body

Until I am numb

Mask

He touches with a hand so feather light

I think I'm dreaming

That the monster in my bed

Is only my imagination

Inching closer by the second

Taking away all of my fear

Cooing away the violence

By bringing it near

I never saw it coming

Because his mask is not one of chaos or hate

But one of love and trust

Oh how easy the mind is to trick!

Beginnings