I Was Never Yours to Define: A Heartbreak in Five Acts (a poem)

A poetic reckoning with the quiet cruelty of being reshaped and the fierce truth that rises when we refuse to be erased.

Where the wall cracked and the roots held, they remembered their names and let the pages go (OpenAI Image generated by author).

You said I was yours.
You traced my name in ink,
Then crossed it out in stone.
A vow that never blinked.

You called it clarity,
But love does not confine.
Love lets us grow in mystery,
Never locks us into lines.

I stood inside the garden
Where your words once fell like rain.
Now they strike like sharpened hailstones,
Cold and thick with disdain.

You said you’d be my shelter,
Yet built a border wall.
You claimed it was for safety —
But it only made me small.

You framed me in your image
Inside a hall of glass.
A thousand frozen versions
That never let me pass.