Back Again
You came back, demand rent of my heart
act like it was nothing, again we can just restart.
You don’t hear a single word I say
even when I have nothing left to give away.
My broken bones beg for mending
for they know just what you are intending.
You’re leaving me no room to breathe
around my heart place your poison oak wreath.
I tell myself to stop this, you’re nothing that I need
for I know I can’t forever satisfy your greed.
But I believe you’re not ok, so I will never go too far
I’ll be the light across your sky, a moment’s shooting star,
I’ll breathe in the space where there is no air,
I will walk with broken bones, much to their despair.
You demand rent again on my heart
take yourself into their rafters, let the decay start.
And I don’t know why I fight for you this way
when you leave my heart in the open to oxidize and decay
Copyright © Rhia Madison Thomer | Year Posted 2010
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