Broken Poem by Benyeakeh Miapeh

I was wronged
So wrong that it hurts
so wrong that it burns
And the reason is difficult to discern
We mathematically solved to get love in return but lost is what we earned.

I'm Broken inside
is it something to abide?
Let put it aside
our misunderstanding, our conflicts
and our arguments.

Your fear plus my fear is equivalent to my tears,
While I'm sad, feeling bad
Can we knit a happy end?

You love me but you push me away
You want me but you never stay
You always leave and do the same with the key,
and it appalls me,
Let's put a halt to this,
because it's completely at the deadlock.


I don't know what to think anymore
This feeling is something I abhor
Intensionally pushing my heart below the floor
The clock is telling me to raise my white flag,
I think it's time for myself to admit...
I'm tired.


15 fights a night,
Broken glasses, shattered windows,
slatted doors,
Broken locks, smashed phones,
scattered home, different tones,
Yet I pretend to be ok again
and you pretending to love me again.


It's not the way we want it
Now it's better we stop it
I'm cracking
I'm already broken
I don't want those pieces of me to be broken
Love was something strong we bestowed
but has now turned into ashes and desert like the Amazon forest,
Just let me go on,
before I burn too.

Benyeakeh Miapeh
Writer/Artist