Smile

People used to throw words

Like knives at me

They cut me deep

And I would bleed

So I took their spears and

built a fortress

in my head.

Nothing anyone said or did

Could burn it down.

I camped away from people

In my palace of stones and words

And nothing could touch me.

But then something broke through.

It wasn’t the weapon I could deflect so easily

It was her smile

And my fort crumbled with it

Inside my palace of words and lines

I died at the hands Of valentines