Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Dark Phoenix: A Sin-Eating Shapeshifter

 





They 


  Already took everything 

             from me. 



I learned skills and magnitudes, I never knew I had in me. 


I broke to reframe. 


I cracked my heart open, 

  Over and over again

     Each time it came- 


Love to destroy me. 


They say, 


  "When the Devil can't reach you, he sends a man in his place". 


And I ate of fruits and delectable dishes, 

  Turned to rot in my mouth 

      and core. 


Turned to grey in my 

   Soul and face. 


I "ate the sin", 

  As my better half states. 


I gave 

   and I learned to take. 


  Take back every boundary 

They put a chainsaw up against. 

  Take back every compassion 

      In the face of their excuse. 


I burned down the world

  That together we shared. 


I walked the fuck away

  When I ate how little they cared. 

How lost they'd gotten. 

  Them all. 


I became something gruesome. 

  Fiercely unapologetic in all my burning rage. 

After all the wrath of a woman, 

  Has always petrified 

And tailed between legs. 



In me, 

  Something awoken 

Ancient and Destroying. Shiva 

   and Mighty. 


Pele....

  And every woman scorned. 


It echoed through my char 

  And sounded through my core- 


A Primordial Siren Waling, 

  Screeching of atrocities bared by her skin 

      and writhe 


So she could break 

  What needed to be consumed. 


I ate the sin alright. 


  Become Fire 

and feathery ash. 


  Become transformed from rage into glory, 

And from death, an intrinsically terrifying form. 


For SHE 

   Was no more. 


Not her. 

  Not that one you knew. 


She is gone. 


  Make no mistake....

She is underground, dead, and buried. 

Resurrected and crucified. 


  Glory now, 

In her name. 


  I....


UNLIKE Jesus, 


  Walk the same! 

This flesh I wear. Her eyes I have. 

  Her memories are mine. 


But I am not her. 


  She had never identified...

She never had the eyes to see. 


Not like me. 


  And never again 


          to be. 



  





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