Sturdy Wings.
This is what you left me with.
Tension to breathe and time.
Time to waste and sleep and kill.
Reality floods my lungs and I've grown numb.
I breathe water and drink air.
I meta morph into someone else.
Some girl stronger than me.
In the end, I am grateful.
For the goose bumps and the scars and the long nights I spent crying and cursing your name.
My chin is strong, my heart is able.
I have a steady pulse.
And as I take bounds and leaps towards danger,
I will not be phased.
Not in the least.
Because I've grown
Tension to breathe and time.
Time to waste and sleep and kill.
Reality floods my lungs and I've grown numb.
I breathe water and drink air.
I meta morph into someone else.
Some girl stronger than me.
In the end, I am grateful.
For the goose bumps and the scars and the long nights I spent crying and cursing your name.
My chin is strong, my heart is able.
I have a steady pulse.
And as I take bounds and leaps towards danger,
I will not be phased.
Not in the least.
Because I've grown