SUNSHINE AURA – poetry. short stories. community.

Why won’t you just talk to me?

Keep me under lock and key

Twist the knob, hear the familiar click

I know that means you’re done with it.

Done with me

Done with this conversation

Never-ending humiliation

Had me running round like a silly girl.

You let me think it wasn’t real

That I was the only one to feel

As if the connection was more

Like I wasn’t who you’d been waiting for.

It was only when I pulled away

That your truth came out to play

Must’ve been buried so deep

For you to pretend you didn’t care for me.

Now I am trapped in your tower

Weighed down by your power

Can’t spell used without confused

What did I just lose?

Something that was never mine

You only wanted to haunt me at night

Keep me so close, tight to your chest

Away from anyone else who may confess

Their true feelings for me.

I feel like I’m going insane

Trying to understand your brain

The way you approach, like I’m a possession

The object of your secret obsession.

You wanted me only for you

Simultaneously rejecting me, too

Kept me close enough to lay claim

Wanting me to always remain.

Your toy you locked far away

Feeding and watering with hidden affection

In public, always facing another direction

It took forever to sever the connection.

It took forever to finally see

Why you kept me under

Lock and key.