My Heart Was King
YOUR HEART WAS KING
When I met you
Your life began
But soon
Mine ended
You asked for my flawless heart
I gave it to you without thinking twice
I protected you against your weaknesses
And swung off shame that was reeking
From your highly troubled past
I fought your battles and breathed life
To your weak lose lungs
My green touch brought the world
To your rickety bony feet
I embraced your wildest fantasies
Led you towards the land of ecstasies
I cried your tears and injected your pain
Upon my spotless shy heart
Always giving a smile in all that hurt
I adorned you with every bit of me
Each of my kiss showed you how to live
Each of my heartbeat showed you how to breathe
Now let’s walk to the nightmarish memory lane
When you first brought her home
That day you completely crashed my heart
I cried tears of the sea
From that tick my body grew thin
Episodes of naïve self delusions
From the pain and stress
Of ‘the return’ to your past life
Sharing our bed with your catch
Was a humiliation bomb that
Exploded in my poor face
I took a moment to absorb
That painful energy that roamed
In the atmosphere rubbing roughly
Against my heart, sipping my pride
Eating away my muscular faith
Still I stood by you in your endeavors
I believed you were somebody
Worthy to deposit my future into
I was wrong as my tumbling joy
Came trembling down
Erecting a thunder in my heart
As the frightening huge pain
Punched the glow out of me
As you again brought an extra
Of your catch home
Splendid, like a model
With glittering gold
Upon her long thin neck
Diamonds hang in her ears
You stood so low
Using all our savings
For such a discounted thing
Still this love was too strong so pain
Grew horns and attacked in the wicked
Of ways, his sharpened horns slashed
Across my body to where my heart hide
My lungs refused to breath and my eyes
Hurled in shock as the wordless misery
Stole my fluffy fantasies and dark naughty
Smoke wrapped up all my ecstasies
My heart was king
My heart was your pride
When I met you
Your life began
But soon
Mine ended
A challenge by Nic Fab to reply to his ‘Your Heart Is King’, hope my answer is properly around the trait of the topic nick…..
Liz Leppy © 2013 Poetry
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