Pedestal

 You’ve taken me off your pedestal

And now I look like everyone else

You foolishly rushed in and thought I was the Holy Grail

But you saw cracks in the armor

You backed down and walked away as if I wounded you

Never stopping to see that I was cut and bleeding

 

Somewhere during the silencing absence

I found my strength and who I once was

Everything around me was perishing but my spirit re-awakened

And I saw me and I saw you still connected but separate

I smiled and I cried and I embraced it all

Now I understand why

And now you too have been taken down off your pedestal