FRAGILE

I was broken when you met me
now, I am shattered
into fragments, scattered,
numb, frozen,
fragile
you break me beautifully
my love
you have reached perfection
in your craft, rejection
so lethal, so brutal
so sterile

you have done this before
in one sure strike
from your dark side
from the dark night
when you ripped me from your life
like you destroy an unwanted page
from an unfinished story
just a clumsy collection
a violent concentration
of terrifying words

you turn and walk
I welcome pain
part of this process, part of the game
I open, unconcealed, I feel and
I heal
for I am not your victim
no my love
I am not of your kind
not your breed, not of your creed

you did not know me enough
all exposed
In rhyme and prose
all revealed to what knows
that shows that there is nothing to hide
In the tears cried
nothing to blame
the fears I claim don’t shame
that my vulnerability is my shelter
from this karmic helter-skelter

I am a girl
that no one will catch
never keep, never own
a girl who loved
for a moment in time
a dance? A dream?
an organised crime?
now I belong to nothing
except this prana in my veins
which flows, which breathes, which reigns

I am a butterfly
in the making still
my body will be created
from pure love
and my wings will be made
from steel.