My Life In Word

Life, Love, Loss & Bits of Broken Beauty

A POEM A DAY 9

MY VOICE

I lost myself in you

To the point of not knowing

Where you stopped and I began

I mean, I literally lost myself in you

To the point of eating mint chocolate chip

When I prefer butter pecan

Mint chocolate chip

Was your flavor of choice

But I lost myself in you

I gave you my voice

I lessened myself

To make you feel taller

I lessened myself

I made myself smaller

So small that I began to evaporate

In order to stroke and satiate

Your pubescent-like ego

I let myself go

But today I choose

To sever the ties

To set aside

All of your lies

Today, I revoke

Every word that you spoke

And as your voice wanes

In rapid decline

I feel the power

In the voice that is mine

Simona A. Brinson

Posted in Poetry