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 

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

I drained every drop of you out of me

and reclaimed myself as my own