Best Poems Written by Marlize Kirchner

The Shunning

And though it's a fact
that you will continue to crawl through
the caves of my mind,
I will not acknowledge you.

I will not speak your name
again
even when I see your eyes in my mirror,
even when I taste your lips in every wine.

I will not take heed of your whispers in my dreams
or your touch in the very blood that rushes through me.
I will not let you see that you've broken me.

I will not dance with your ghost
I will not mourn you
I will not tiptoe around our grave
nor will my shadow do.

So don't think of me when you read these words,
don't think of me at all.
Don't remember the mist or rain or poetry
and forget the memory of touch.

I shun you, loved one,
I ban you to a barren land
where only my heart still lives.

Copyright © Marlize Kirchner | Year Posted 2020