Your Inn Town Girl Poem by Samantha McKinnon

Your sweet and smiling lips
Were drenched and dripping with deceit
Your warm and aggressive hands
Fell over me,
Soaking me in sadness and misery.
Your name walks across my mind
And like fireworks,
The flashbacks burn my eyes
And electrocute my heart.
Your words resonate
Through the emptiness in my chest,
And chase away the sheep I counted
While trying to sleep off that night
From so long ago.
The sting of your venom
Lingers in my veins,
Like the most persistent leaf of red
Upon a decaying autumn branch.
The antidote is nowhere to be found- -
It's not yet mine to claim.
You're just another stone
Within the cemetery
Marking another broken piece
Of my soul.