Thoughtless Words... Poem by chantelle ribeiro

Your thoughtless words
echo in my mind
overwhelm my heart
It breaks it into shards of mirror
reflecting the cruelty of your eyes
as it cuts deeply
severing all thoughts of self worth
It makes me look at myself differently
An out of body experience
Watching in horror
noticing my imperfections
as now you have pointed them out
Everything I believed I was becoming
destroyed in a moment of weakness
A woman like me
Sensitive and vulnerable
It hurts like a thousand daggers
thrust into my soul
And now when my eyes have swelled
from humiliating waterfalls of sorrow
I sit here
head bent
And I know
I have to get up tomorrow
start my day again
Forgive
Forget
And pick myself up from the floor
and start again...