Wednesday, 7 May 2025

I'm Not Toxic.

 I insist I’m just the weather, never the flood,

a breeze that happens to bend your branches low.

My words? Mere sparks. If your forests combust,

blame dry roots, not the flicker of what I know.


I don’t twist truths, I polish them smooth,

like stones made to skip where the water’s unclear.

You call it fog. I call it a mirror.

who’s to say what’s distortion or fear?


So, what if my silence blooms thorns overnight?

If my laughter’s a door you can’t pry open?

Toxins need intent. I’m just… honest light

revealing cracks in the glass you’ve been holding.


But here’s the bruise no one sees:

the louder I swear I’m not poison, the more

the air tastes of rust and the ghost of a plea

choking the soil where your roses once tore.

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