Flowers on my stomach

March 4, 2015

I am flawless.

With flowers covering my skin from him

I drug myself out of a bloody garden

Too late however, the colors were imprinted

On my neck, , stomach.

A garden bloomed on my chest.

The flowers have faded, my mind, and heart have healed.

Powerless no more, I can hold my own

I stand on two feet as a witness

To harsh brutality

And to the flowers at my doorstep, after he painted my skin with his hands,

After he painted my mind with ugly words, then dribbled a string of affections

To cover the scars.

His words can't touch me anymore.

His hands cannot touch anything but bars,

I have freed myself from the hands

Of malice

I am flawless

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