Divergence - Ashley Wylde Slam Poetry

This is my first ever attempt at slam poetry, so don't be too harsh! The poem is titled "Divergence."

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I was the bullet to your gun, the one you pointed at your chest as I watched your fingers close, and I couldn't bear to watch it, but you hated me for not trying to stop it, and you were the moon to my sun; what a pair we'd have made if we were ever in the same place, what a story we could have written if we were ever on the same page, and that's not to say that I don't love you, it's to say I can no longer touch you, because I spent so long forgetting how you head rested on my chest and our heart were two mallets hitting the very same drum. You saw snowflakes as new hope and all I wanted was to melt them; you took me outside to show me and I went, but I never felt them. Your winter made my pain numb and my summer made you heart thump, but to hold me was to slowly fade away. The things we love are different: your subtle glow permeates the night, and all I love is when I'm the sun, no one else can shine as bright. But you are more magnificent; for I could never face the dark for fear that it would mix with the black within in me and overcome my heart. I have always been a painter, my only colors black and blue; I thought I was making you beautiful, but I was painting you a bruise. It doesn't do for me to warm the snow when for you, the cold is divine, or to try to light the night, when the darkness suits you just fine. It's not my job to stand in your way and it's not your job to fix me; I'm a light bulb without a socket because I haven't found one that fits me. I see now that I must not stay here, like the summer and winter we must learn to share the year. Because it's only when I step aside that I truly see you shine; like the moon hidden in the daytime, your light shouldn't be smothered by mine.

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[foreversupergay]

I love it Ashley!!

[TheTallestChickEva]

Absolutely amazing.

[aspokenpoetsverse]

nice