Heartbreak Defiant

A poem about standing your ground

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I know you hate me, deep down. 
You thought that I would surely drown. 
That somehow, without your help, 
I would finally destroy myself. 

You see, you had it all wrong.
Your voice was never part of my song, 
You tried to suffocate my creativity. 
By keeping me trapped in captivity. 

When you wanted to leave, I let you go.
Everything you asked, I made it so.
Yet that wasn’t good enough for you. 
Only my destruction would do. 

From shadows, you attack over and over,
As if that will somehow bring you closure. 
You’re helpless and unable to see, 
That you no longer have power over me. 

There’s something I want you to know
before this all ends and you finally go. 
My fire burns bright, and it always will,
The poet in me, you shall never kill. 

So go ahead, tell me I’ve done the worst, 
but remember that it was you who struck first.
You left me here in the ashes of what we built. 
Tried to pin on me all of the blame and guilt.

I wanted peace, but you lust for war, 
Nothing but hatred, down to your very core.
You send minions in your stead to attack,
but my allies will always have my back. 

Every time I fall, I will rise, and then,
I’ll pick up my pages and my pen. 
You never understood my power, 
Now you’re desperate in your final hour. 

I stand here, heartbreak defiant.
I am no longer simply compliant. 
Your aim was off; you hit my heart.
My soul was always stronger from the start. 

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