You built the foundations of my being with your bear hands, though the pillars of salt filled all of my wounds.

You created everything that I am, though you've destroyed me all the same.

We are Atlantis, as we are lost

Your love showered comforting drops of reassurance until it became a storm, drowning out who I am

leaving me to wonder if we were ever real, or a narrative fabricated to dazzle the shining eyes all around us

In one breath you watched me rise, and then you killed my light.

You bashed my head into the wall, yet you were the one who kissed it better?

In what way does that make you a respectable person,
someone that I should value?

In what way does that mean I must devote my love and my life to you?

You think you are so deserving, as you sit and watch all the havoc you have wreaked unfold.

You are a dictator of my world

Telling me who I must be
Who I can see
And what I must do

The chains weigh me back as u run far ahead of me taunting at me to catch up,

when I don’t

You fight back.

You rip my hair from its holds,
you tear my skin until it is painted in crimson,
you pierce my heart with your weapon of words,

and yet at the end you repair me

you apologize for your sins and pray to me as if I were your god

You beg me for my forgiveness,
and I accept

Deep down I know you will never change

You will continue biting down on my tongue so that I may not utter the truth

You will still harm me the same way you always have

But you will deny it.
You will turn it on me.

You’ll tell me I cut my own hair off for being too reckless
You’ll tell me I skinned my own knees from being too foolish
You’ll tell me I pierced my own heart by being too trusting

Yet it was you I trusted.

You sculpted me from the clay you were given as it lay awkwardly in your hands
Yet when the kiln got too hot, you smashed it out of fear

You created me as a person, and killed me as a friend.