[a Fatal Myth] Poem by Frozen Beauty

once you tied my tongue
i would simply smile
but you broke me down
long ago, and i let you
perhaps just to prove
you could have me
if you wanted to
take me out at the knees
i'd just rest at your feet
as you stole from me
the air in my lungs
my ability to breathe
or think, clearly
i handed you the knife
to dissect, display my heart
then clouded my own vision
put a picture of you in it
pretended i was happy
with myself, what i'd done
with this life
i created, just a figment
of my sad imagination
but i've realized, finally
this isn't me
this compromise
i can't have, don't want
to live with, all these lies

(04/25/09)