Stolen
by theothertrail on December 10, 2008A poem that conforms to the style of Sylvia Plath
(meant in context of her husband's infidelity)
It has already been decided
a thousand years before
that I was never meant to last
longer than the passing of seasons
nor longer
than the time it takes
for a wretch like you
to steal and swallow all.
All those pills.
All those words.
All that scratched up skin.
Let me retaliate
and steal your teeth
those molars, canines and gnashing insiscors
So I can grind them down
one by one
into snowy ash
and throw it all off of rooftops
followed by the hooked feathers
you plucked one by one from my torn back
that way,
your little lies could no longer form
little candied whispers
that drip off the earlobes
of simpering girls
and run like blood down their necks
and I will leave only my feathers
to laugh at your dust
since in its finality,
I will crawl to my resting place.
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