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Standing Ground
It's bad
But so badly do I want to go back
and feel your warmth
Soak my skin
I want to blur my memory with swindled sips
and water the weeds of our past
But how long must I reseal the cracks
You've slithered in our relationship
How long must I stifle this shame in the catacombs of my stomach
Maybe I'll become one with the walls
And let you suffocate me to sleep
You're the reason I don't want to know myself
Just darkness and deep
But the blood never stops
It simmers in my fingers and burns to my bones
So I want you to know
Im done
Walking eggshells on your tongue
I'll stomp and drag my feet through the water
And watch where the ripples
will flow
So go dig your eyes in my skin
And scribble words in my stomach
You're not mature
Withholding your spit
Don't forget
The months I've spent curled in that bunker studying the tick of your speech
Anticipating the eruption of your lips
I already know the worst you can do
So go ahead
Because I'll metabolize the malice in your words
I'll bellow the bullets I've reserved
I don't care how bad it hurts
Too long have I stifled my resentment, my every objection,
No I won't make an exception
I'll kill your twisted condescension
and make sure
You know
Rejection
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Originally, "Standing Ground" was only supposed to be the last seventeen lines of my poem. I had recently severed a connection with someone I'd know for years, and wrote a bunch of lines about it randomly throughout the following week. The problem was, I had no idea how to incorporate any of it. Then one day I remembered the seven stages of grief (denial, sadness, angry, etc) and then it clicked. I realized it I could assign my random throwaway lines into each category. And so, I had my poem descend in that order with my original seventeen lines acting as the stage of acceptance. If any writers reading have the problem, it's so helpful to use this method.