Love Bully Poem by Sylvia Lydia Morelos

You hurt my heart with your dark words, you drew for me a picture
Of your true self, your true nature, oh, one that is so sinister
I closed my eyes and choked back tears, what harm you did to me!
I breathed in slowly, without fear, and then I turned to see

The harrowing circumstance in which I found myself, so dangerously raw
I felt too close to you to even express the horrors that I saw
Your demeaning ways of provoking me to feel not ill at ease
You took me for some doting weakling, you took me for a tease

My body sensed the intense fear that you tried to force and still
I did not pretend to love, my dear, your fake and apologetic will
I don't feel insecurity, I love my mind and soul
I also love my body's breeze not intertwining yours

You tried to make me feel so cold, you tried to place a fist
On a body that grew so very bold as to sustain and resist