Hurt me with your words : Still I rise

Hurt me with your words

But I will use the hurt

To alchemize

Even if I have to cry

The tears and fears you refused to own

Due to emotional brutality

Kick me when I am down

Does it make you feel more superior?

Does it give you a sense of power

To try and steal mine?

I do not care any more

Play your torturous games

Just you try to dump

Your toxic shame into me

And see me burn it clean

On the funeral pyre

I will no longer be put down by you

You nasty shallow person

Who seeks to drown my authentic self

In your toxic mire!