Toxins

You left long ago

Yet your words still linger

Like a gaping wound

That never heals

 

Will I ever learn

To expunge the toxins in my veins

That you erected in my heart?

 

My blood is tainted

With your vitriolic opinions

With words 

I would’ve never used to describe myself—before I met you

 

My life was a darkling plain

You became a beacon

Radiating hatred

For everything I liked about myself


One day

I will expunge your toxins

I will learn to adore everything you despised about me

One day

The gaping wound will heal

And I will love again.

 

-Lucy

Lulu_D

TX

15 years old

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