SOFT VOICE, SHARP ARROWS: WHEN DELAY MEETS PRECISION


This is for all those who think of the perfect comeback three days later. Or three months later. Or whenever.

I have found poetry to be the satisfying weapon.


SOFT VOICE, SHARP ARROWS: WHEN DELAY MEETS PRECISION 

You may think

You got away with

Offending me,

Insulting me,

Disrespecting me.

Ha!

 

Your unkindness pierced

my fragile skin,

burrowed deep into my psyche.

It smoulders,

silver-hot,

slithering like mercury,

shifting shape,

becoming stealth-driven arrowheads

engraved with your initials.

 

Sticks and stones, my dear?

 

Wait for my words:

slowly sharpened,

fiercely finessed.

 

You may never even know what hit you.

 

 Enjoy my poetry? Read my poetry book, ILLICIT CROISSANTS AT DAWN

 

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