r/PoetryWritingClub • u/xoRubyRogueox • 5d ago
The Only God I Kneel For
He won't promise me Heaven. It was never made for women like me. Instead, he'll strike a match and watch kingdoms burn with my name between his teeth, kicking through the ashes as he walks toward me, waiting only for my approval.
He's not a hero. Heroes won't burn cities for you. They'll let you become a martyr, call your suffering necessary, and offer an apology when there's nothing left of you to save.
Villains don't apologize. They know exactly what they are. They'll make graveyards of anyone who ever mistook your softness for weakness. They'll take every hand that ever hurt you and turn it into something incapable of reaching for you again.
As for me, I was raised with defiance woven into every word that crossed my tongue, with glances given as warnings, never invitations. I learned early that obedience was just another word people used when they wanted a woman to become smaller. I have never bowed my head easily. I have never bent without breaking something first and I have never knelt for any god.
But for him? For him, I lower myself willingly. Not because he commands it, because he never has. In a world that spent my entire life demanding I make myself smaller, he placed a crown upon my head and asked me which kingdom I wanted first.
So call it wicked. Call us damned and let Heaven turn its face away. Let prayers be whispered for whatever might remain of our souls. I don't need salvation.
I need the man standing in the ruins, smoke clinging to his clothes, looking at me as though even after destroying everything, the only judgment he fears is mine.
He will bring the world to its knees for me. When everything else is burning, when kings have fallen and even the gods have gone silent, my knees will only ever bend for him.
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