HER STORM

I learned the sound of thunder in her voice,

The kind that makes a broken heart rejoice.

She’d call me when the darkness got too loud,

I’d drag her demons screaming from the ground.

I never asked her to be mine,

I just kept standing on the firing line.

Every scar she couldn’t bear to wear,

Somehow ended up across my skin somewhere.

And God, I swear,

I found my peace in the chaos there.

I was the shelter in her storm,

The arms that kept her safe and warm.

I fought the monsters in her head

While mine were begging to be fed.

I’d burn myself just to keep her whole,

Give her everything I couldn’t hold.

But when the sky finally turned blue,

She found somebody else to run to.

I saved her from the dark—

She just never chose my heart.

I watched her fall a thousand times,

Picked up the pieces and called them mine.

She’d swear that I was all she needed,

Then disappear when the bleeding stopped.

I became the man behind the shield,

Taking every wound she wouldn’t feel.

And maybe that’s the cruelest part—

She never knew how much it cost my heart.

I don’t regret

The blood, the tears, the nights I can’t forget.

I was the shelter in her storm,

The arms that kept her safe and warm.

I fought the monsters in her head

While mine were begging to be fed.

I’d burn myself just to keep her whole,

Give her everything I couldn’t hold.

But when the sky finally turned blue,

She found somebody else to run to.

I saved her from the dark—

She just never chose my heart.

I WAS THERE WHEN NOBODY CAME!

I TOOK THE FIRE! I TOOK THE BLAME!

I GAVE HER EVERYTHING I HAD!

SO WHY THE FUCK AM I THE ONE LEFT BAD?!

Maybe I confused being needed

With being loved.

Maybe I was only her armor

Because she never wanted my blood.

So I’ll walk away with the scars I earned,

And let her live in the world I helped her learn.

She gets the life I died to protect—

And I get the silence I never expected.

I was the shelter in her storm,

The one who kept her breathing through the war.

I fought every demon she couldn’t face,

Just to watch someone else take my place.

I’d burn myself just to keep her whole,

Now there’s nothing left but an empty soul.

When the sky finally turned blue,

She chose somebody who wasn’t me to hold onto.

So let the thunder come.

Let it tear through me.

For once, I won’t be her shield.

For once…

I’ll let myself bleed.