The Kiss Of Ignorance

A poem of self-acceptance and the determination to let go of toxic people.

It wasn’t a phase, even though you wished it so;
The feelings inside festered like a disease — at least you told me that was so.

Like a caterpillar, leaves a cocoon,
I didn’t believe the hate you spewed.

The ignorant ideas you always consumed,
It did not stay with me, I will never be like you.

I know now that you were a liar.
You used terrifying words to set my true self on fire.

But from the ashes, the Phoenix rises,
I am starting a new life, a new day, without your explicit bias.

I am what I am and it is not a disease.
You were the one holding me back, not allowing me to be free.

I cast you off, and I will never miss,
The painful feeling of the ignorant kiss.