Unbreakable

• Hannah Hebditch
• Poetry
• 2012

You can crush up words and
Smear them into my mind in many insulting ways

And I know, that you’ll try to tear up every thin spread of a hope I’ve got,

Until I bind it thick and strong


One day, I’m going to overcome this, I’ll

Watch my strengthful flames rise up over the toughest of all and

Make sure it burns down to the weakest challenge

You can throw your worn out words

Into my side of the water, see them fizzle down to the depts

Float down continuously into nothing

But I know, that you’re weak, weaker than I am

Yes, I’ve been hit by your meteorite of passionate hate

But your annoyance with me, now just slips over the other side

I’m fragile, but I’m also unbreakable…