We are fighters.

This is for anyone who has gotten over a crush/ex/lover. Hope you feel more free.

We were the same.

same pain,

gaining nothing

but rainy days and shame.

Jumping meter hurdles with turtle legs 

and boulders bearing down, 

making hearts wain and sweat.

Giving comfort to each other, 

Helping each other through the trail,

Like helping fumbling, blind babies’ fingers trace the brail for the first time.

But it was like making a fried egg unfry 

Or drowning a fish, praying it will die.

Impossible.

So instead, we just sighed

Perhaps we cried, 

watched our leafy emotions wilt and die

and lie in our pit-like stomachs.

And then something happened. 

We both saw the light,

Helped each other to fight.

She leant me her fists and I leant her mine.

And together we walked a line to freedom,

Our hearts beginning to entwine,

whilst our unrequited love ties ground to a halt

Put up to a wall and shot. 

We now dine, on new emotions,

Free from baggage and negative notions of relationships 

and past slip ups. 

Instead now we sit up, attentive and stronger, our turtle legs growing,

And the boulder now lighter. 

We are fighters.  

And we and our hearts have grown up.