Thursday 17 May 2012

Save Your Breath


What's this—a peace offering?
Empty words to fill my wounds?
The patterned lines of plaid
could have seen this coming.
Typical.

Silence for months—for what?
To shake the rug beneath
when I started standing up?
Comical,

the way the threads between
your lies still hold,
but scissors I carry now.
Cut one and watch
the whole thing unravel.
Fall

you bitches and sluts,
you rumors and truths.
Unmask yourselves before
I rightfully call you out.
I'm not stupid.

I know—everyone knows!
Would be a naïve girl not to see
the veil is black.
And as the pieces of the puzzle fit,
what's this, what's this?

Save your breath and the white flag,
a war is served today.