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Sophie Justin is in the class of 2028 studying politics and theology. Sophie primarily focuses on songwriting, and this is her first poetic work which stands on its own. While the poem has great personal meaning, the beauty of art is that every aspect of it is subjective, and themes of grief and the hope which comes after are universal. While the author always reads the poem aloud, the reader is free to do whatever they wish to with it, like reading it backwards or putting it on their fridge
I gave you my body because I wanted you
I thought it would win you over.
You said you loved me, but you love everything else in the same way
You love another just as much as me, if not more
Help me to be like you
Unaware
Detached
Hurting without pain
Did you love me or the parts of you I reflect?
The way I beg and sell my soul for your embrace
I still bleed for you, your touch
Even when the blood dries my heart will remain wounded
Yet I gave you nothing in truth
When I give of myself out of love all creation sings
I could never give you my body because it is not mine to give
All creation is one
Intertwined
Parts of a whole
I am broken but will heal
I cry but will rejoice
I grieve, but not for your absence
I do so for what love I shared that was not accepted
Yet creation shall accept it, and my grief
The parts of me you were too scared to hold.
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