Love Poem: Your Renegade Heart
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Written by: Michelle Faulkner

Your Renegade Heart

Your renegade heart, so darkly pure
Once scarred by light found insecure

Our momentum of romanced waves converged
Drowning all foundations of reserve

But my faint mount failed to keep pace
Across your tangled steeplechase

When every question was a crime
Smug sneers met any need of mine

Callowness furled in fickle curls
How you despised the unrepentant world!

Yet, I thank you for this cruel clarity
For if you are the villain, the hero is me

So I flew on wings shed of regret
With a strength you'd like me to forget

Now, my second-hand heart, though incomplete
Even ragged, tattered and stitched - still beats.

8/05/20