Love Poem: Coup
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Written by: Jo Bien

Coup

a reason to believe
a victory I won’t taste
tension in the feelings
a love that’s gone to waste

I feel it in my soul
the words escape my lips
a bloody, useless battle
my mind can’t seem to grip

the air escapes the room
and I can’t seem to breathe
a scar that just won’t heal
a wound that always seeps

a heart that is still screaming
it beats it’s disbelief
never, ever thinking
that you would really leave

no pleasure in the moments
that I once spent with you
the fire that burned inside me
defeated with your coup