Golden
If her heart is golden
then mine is blue,
battered and bruised
from years of abuse.
For centuries,
I forced desperate pleas
to the souls of men
just for them to misunderstand.
But with one look
she saw me as I am,
and I never uttered
a wasted breath again.
Eryn Murphy is a journalist and emerging poet based in North Carolina. As a journalist, she has contributed thousands of articles to multiple publications, and her poetry and prose has been published in The New Verse News and The Drabble. Her portfolio can be viewed on her website www.erynmurphywriter.com, and she can be found on Twitter @erynmurphy_ and on Instagram @eamurphy.
