She learned too early what love should not be,
She learned too early, what it felt like when your loved one hurts you, and then leaves...
Two men she trusted, she loved and depended on as she grewā¦
Broke something sacred inside of her, before she even knew...
Before ten candles, before her childhood was done,
Her safety was taken, her silence was won.
So love became tangled with fear and with shame,
& being touched by a man... never quite felt okay...
She grew with a hunger she didnāt yet see,
Mistaking attention for being set free.
As a teen she searched the eyes of boys, for proof of her existence,
Lust felt like loveā but she felt dirty⦠her self image forever being shifted.
The patterns grew legs, followed her grown,
Validation mistaken for seeds she had sown.
Men filled the space where worth should have stayed,
A debt she kept paying for⦠a debt she never made.
Then he arrivedādifferent vibe, different tone,
For once her body felt safe, not alone.
Her heart chose him easily, without question and full of fearā¦
She wanted him, but his incarceration created a space where he was always distant and never near.
Then he got out, after 15 long yearsā¦
She had dreams of a different love, a love not lived in fearā¦
Her trust made her soft, something rare, something new,
She offered her softness because their love felt true.
Her love and her lust for one began to fade each time that she stayed,
In the future she pictured, she didnāt feel he wanted her or the plans that she made.
She still dreamed with him, shared with him, craved him and his taste.
Believing love meant you could lower your guard, believing their love was fate.
But wounds choose patterns when left unexplored,
And his hunger still wandered for something more.
Now love feels like glass in her trembling hands,
She wonāt follow again, wonāt make future plans.
Because she handed off her heartā¦
For it to be shattered by one manā¦
She feels dirty... his words make her weak.
She gets so flustered she canāt even speak.
Maybe she is changed for good, if so- let this much be said:
She loved once honestlyāmaybe the first and last time she will ever feel her heart isnāt dead.
Heās happy in another relationship now. As for her? She says "never again."