Crossed woRrOADds

I'm screaming
     from inside
          the pretty cage you put me in.
And I'm supposed to be grateful
for the lack of choice.  
 
A man who cannot hear me
Cannot care for me.
Should not speak for me.  
 
You had my words  
      but their meaning
                ran like water
                      through your hands.  
Now we're sifting through the sand,
knocked off our feet.
 
And arguing over what the definition of love
Should LOOK like.  
 
I don't have long enough to breathe,
     to believe,  
        before the lies fly in dollar signs.
We agree I should have seen;
and would have, had I not held onto trust.
 
You in your paper armor  
Wielding my words like a weapon against me.  
 
     I wasn't looking for blame.
   I was searching for solutions.
                 A path.
             Our ground.
 
Perspective the shield you choose  
      to block the truth;
         and my words fall  
Behind
like so many, heavy stones.  
 
EVERYTHING
Should have gone into the foundation.  
    
No wonder
                   it's been
                            so shaky
          and unsafe
 
I'm not getting in a cage.
No matter how sharp  
my tongue may have been  
when that sword last left my lips.
 
I'm not tying my dreams
          to someone who won't protect them.
                    No matter how high our hopes may float.
You stripped me of my integrity
with LOVE dripping blind, hungry on your lips.
 
I'm standing naked without consent.
Burned but bright!
 
Listen.
Don't try to hold a shooting star.
The only thing you accomplish
Is changing her trajectory.