"Before There Was You" is a reflection on power, vulnerability, and survival within a toxic love story. Inspired by Lil' Kim’s relationship with Biggie Smalls, this piece explores the duality of strength and dependence, the way a woman can be a force on her own but still find herself consumed by love, betrayal, and the weight of expectation. The poem moves through themes of ambition, desperation, and the suffocating presence of those who claim to be allies but only add to the chaos. It’s about what existed before the love, before the toxicity, before the loss of self.
I write from the space between power and destruction, where love isn’t always a soft thing; it’s raw, it’s violent, it’s consuming. Before There Was You speaks to the way love can erode identity, how it twists independence into dependence, and how survival sometimes means remembering who you were before it all. Lil’ Kim’s story; her fire, her vulnerability, her pain; resonates deeply with me because it mirrors so many untold stories of women who build empires but are still trapped inside someone else’s shadow. This poem is a testament to the ones who had to fight to reclaim themselves.
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