Rush Of Blood Poem by Ashley Power

My tongue is numb
With words I can’t speak.
Rush of blood,
I feel my heart jump
like an eager fish from a brilliant lake.
I am startled by the splash.
It wakes me
Reminds me
You are different.
You are changed.

My heart is angry
Outraged by my naïve mind.
Its walls are weak,
Its innocence lost.
It screams, yells, cries.
“Foolish girl, why have you let me die? ”

Foolish girl,
You have been left empty,
Empty like a barren field where flowers never bloom.
That’s what you get for letting him inside.
Foolish girl, stop watching him.
Don’t dare hold the hand that slay me.

I feel a rush of blood,
I feel a sting of remembrance.
You see my eyes and you stare right through them.
My tongue is numb
With words I can’t speak.