Phoenix

The biting anguish of betrayal
Is first overridden by blind love and disbelief.
Shattered like old silk or glass,
Jagged shards of realization embed deep within my heart.
Driven to my knees and gasping for air,
I see truth in retrospect,
And somehow I find my feet.

Unconsciously I held my breath
Until you knocked it out of me.
All the unspoken words I swallowed,
The bitten tongues that filled me up,
Rushed forth in a flood of bilious rage.
Electrified and anorexic, I breathe
And I breathe again.

The beauty found inside heartbreak
Is sharp like a razorblade and dark as the soul.
Perfect like ruby lips and rain,
This insomniac daze has opened my mind.
Poised on the verge of freefall,
Deliriously free and unbound,
I step through you and walk on.