You want an excuse rather than a reason Just go ahead lie more it’s fitting in any season You say you love but you don’t even what it means You promise things but your need to lie is feens Addicted and tangled in all your webs you wove Your words are as empty as the pot on the stove Did you ever speak one single word of truth? I declare you are ruthless and have no couth. Lies, lies all that flows from your gaping mouth Truth to you is as far apart as the North is to South The only truth you will ever tell is when you die Because without any breath left you can’t tell a lie CDK 2-16-2026

From the perch To the pedestal I don’t recognize my funny little hands at your sides, Nails half bloody, broken from the needing But they’re doing animal things the reconnaissance of my heart once our home I used to wear a smile so wide Now I feel myself falling in strips, From inside and my teeth become claws and my eyes stop trying to see My mouth wrapped around iron bars My dress a bullfighter between passing cars Do you know what you’ve done to me Copyright ©️ Kimberly Virga 2026

Chance of rain Chance of rain, yeah? Chance of going completely insane Why do you ignore me when The battle wounds start to bleed What kind of woman ought to understand What kind of woman do YOU need I am certainly obtunded by your Unsurprisingly remote lack of love The words, ways, that have been feeding me have stopped their funding Deliberate You are Grossly inconsiderate Please break my limbs, maybe- wait Yes The passion only sings When you’ve abandoned me so succinctly Let me take the tincture, let me Rest assured, you can try to pinch her But the real story has taken over And I’m not the wolf you want to recover Copyright ©️ Kimberly Virga 2026

I don’t miss you at church, I don’t miss you In front of God I miss you driving to work, Cracking open a Celsius, Eating cacio Pepe I miss you when I’m getting dressed I miss you when they bring out The wrong appetizer I couldn’t possibly kneel deeper I couldn’t possibly dig my nails into this tree bark Any harder But the breeze bends me to The doorstep of your altar (pour your wax into my mouth) And I don’t miss you in prayer books Sermons or speeches But skipping rocks, peeling off leeches Til the sabotage climbs like fern What did I do What did I do Want to meet at the mall And review maps Make plans and hold new hands I may not be your bride But we both know I’m your bridle Copyright ©️ Kimberly Virga 2026

The way you stalk me, abiding by evil, Is so fruitful And still I’m almost collapsed onto my knees, Despite the carnage, the red lips, the kill You dart between trees and heartstrings Ready to strip me of any flesh I have left, anything worthy Ready to clip me of any molted wings I could’ve kept, But you insist they wouldn’t serve me Every time I dip down into the water, I only see your face And the sky has knelt for an unfunny god And I’m running, but let’s be honest I love being in this place Copyright ©️ Kimberly Virga 2026