Ahead of a storm, words, and lies
Staying out front, ride or dies
Promises broken, fences mended
Scraped hearts, knees, a cicadas chorus
Lost girl, wrong side of the tracks
back to back moments, memories a fury of emotions
lost in the moment, a decade to calm, edge of the sword
out righting wrongs.
Better on the side of the crowd, words lost in translation,
when life is loud.
I knew you better than you knew yourself
failed this worse than a driver tests
taken from the passenger side
I ignore all the hate and lies
I walked you to your demons and stood in between
as they slayed me to the ground
lean from all that was given, emaciated from a hurtful love
You needed a knife, I returned all the ones you already used
laughing on social media like this isn’t abuse
why stay, I knew, I know, I needed to know what and why
You were an echo that found it’s way back, a boomerang of lies
wrapped in ancestral trauma and pictures that looked like home
Current mood, misunderstood, a river deep and bluff’s steep
access to healing that I couldn’t touch
denied but,
I know who I am, where I am going and I am loved unconditionally here,
on the other side.