Sliver of Strength
Ocean eyes frozen over, silenced
by the string of letters forming
hateful words rolling off the
tongue of the person who she thought
would never use words as bullets
to murder her spirit with. Pieces of her heart
melting away and barrelling silently
down her face likt tiny rivers of
emotion cascading through the
peaks and valleys of a stoic landscape.
she tries to stay strong as the daggers
that shoot from her attackers
words bombard her soul and try to fracture
the last fragile sliver of her strength
as if it was just a toy all aong. At last
the quiet of her mind is stolen, the
shield she constructed has cracked and
then that las sliver of strength he
stored away shatters, rendering her
demolished like the shell of a house
after the insides hace been set fire
to. Charred and unrecognizable after.