Some days I feel like a
Slab of frozen meat
Left to thaw on a stylishly
Barren countertop
Slick granite hard as steel
A lifetime promise
Guaranteed to outlive me
While the heat of the room
Rises and envelopes
My icy sanguine surface
Like a warm yellow blanket
This veneer that once
Loved and protected
Living flesh blood bones
I remember
Oh yes yes yes
I remember who I once was
Before the deep freeze
Before the sub-zero temperatures
Before the cleaver struck
Before the darkness
I was once beautiful and free
A fairy with butterfly wings
A lioness roaring with ferocity
A brave warrior in the battlefield
A lover of poetry and song
A goddess atop the mountain
A wild mustang running untamed
A mother to the earth
A tree bending in the wind
A cloud dancing in the sky
A bird of myth telling tales
A star rising to the heavens
A creature who loved and was loved
Oh yes yes yes
I remember her
She was divine
