Cut to Grow

You walked around with a sword-

Your name engraved, as you swung / /

A rugged man
with a sea of opportunity.

Inside you was a little boy

playing pirates

capturing me,

a princess with a queen’s future.

Shackled,

You sung love songs to me

as you swung slashing away

the layers over my heart.

The days passed slow

as you whispered

foreign words into my dark cell

at the ship's bottom.

Bringing me up,

we’d walk to the end of the plank

and you swung,

taking me down, down, down....

A slow torture-

hour by hour-

limb by limb
fell to the floor

Here and now I am
only eyes tearing up

seeing you bare:

no costumes or lies

Clear vision sees

that you and I
were rotten

from the start

I move it to my memory

as lesson in love.

Cut down, but not gone

I’m left with eyes

to water my heart

and grow, grow, grow....