my mind became a still for your endless invective, vaporizing each syllable until their potency overwhelmed me
so I moved them into the oak barrel of my body
where they remained stored for years,
taking up residence in the deep channels of my viscera
where they remained stored for years,
taking up residence in the deep channels of my viscera
until even there, they became too heavy to be contained and the trusses burst open in a flood of raging fury and unmatched beauty
in that moment, all the poisonous scorn you had poured into me for years
was brutally evicted from my body in an act of exquisite transmutation
in a fury of screams and tears and wild dance
in a fury of screams and tears and wild dance
I drained every drop of you out of me
and reclaimed myself as my own
