Prisoner of War

Imprisoned in a free body, 
My spirit tries to fight. 
What it knows is inevitable, 
You have just became my warden.

Blocked, silent, and suffocatedly still, 
The fight cease and my breathing shallows. 
What I once knew of that was alive, 
Has just become frozen without emotions.

Blank stare and dull eyes, 
The laughter, the love. 
All that I ever thought was true, 
Is gone.

The love I had was never ending, 
Your love was never there. 
I knew, from the start you'd, 
Be the one to break me.

You told me a blatantly heart stopping lie, 
You told me you'd keep my heart together. 
Little did I know when you were through, 
How little heart I would have left.

I fell like a butterfly, 
Kindly I went without a word. 
Truly I fell with grace, 
Swiftly, fast, and hard.

You once said we'd fall together, 
We did. Except we landed miles apart. 
One in water, the other in her mind. 
You drowned, I suffocated.

I was left alone in a body, 
That I no longer felt a connection to. 
Drifting, screaming, crying out, 
for someone to let me out of the hole.

POW Prisoner of war, I was captured, 
Knowing this wasn't a fair battle. 
I held the gun, you held my heart, 
And said surrender I've won.

I dropped my arms what was I to do? 
You held the one thing I had left. 
In your hands was my sanity, 
In my hand, would of been my clarity...

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