Fractured Bubblegum
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I never liked my name until I tasted it on your lips
Your bubblegum lipstick rubbing off on my teeth
My blinking painting a watercolor on my cheek
The black ink of mascara and tears
Your name was like a prayer on my lips
It slurred into my ears molasses drowning me
the only words I could hear were you
I wasn’t perfect until you let me be so
and you let me be so
my face cracked under your fingertips
you molded me to what you wanted me to be
But then you left
You went away and all I could see were the flaws inside me
Gone was that one thing that let me be
That held me together and kept me in one piece
so I cracked
I broke down to tiny pieces
Like a shattered mirror each piece reflected a part of who I was
That was when I saw it
In each piece a part of me was reflected
I didn’t have to follow you
I didn’t have to follow anyone
Even though you left I didn’t have to fall didn’t have to feel flawed
So I pulled myself up off the ground and stood high
So high I could see the world around me
My head held above the sky I was god I was queen
I drank my name off the clouds
Heaven itself adored me
I became flawless