Rotting Corpse Poem by Carlos Gutierrez

As children play with their toys
As a puppeter goes up and down with the strings
I was used over and over again as if my insides were nothing but void
Hypnotized by the snake’s hiss and kidnapped by the eagle’s wings
I gave you my naive heart
Without much given thought
You promised me the universe and the stars
How can I say I saw it coming?

You tore my veins to pieces and fed voltures with my bloody flesh
My corpse was left somewhere vaguely familiar
Yet completely unknown to my senses
By instinct I bring up my walls
And build up my fortress defenses
Repeating over and over to myself
As I loved you, I will never love anyone else
I make a promise and take a bow
You were my first and my last
There isn’t a human soul that can penetrate the shield I have now
Love and life are only now a faded memory of the past.