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You and me

We don’t talk very often

But that conversation last night

Was the final nail in the coffin

You’d think time and distance

Would soften your insistence

That I ruined your life —

Or at least blunt the tip of your knife

Instead you’ve grown meaner

Crueler, nastier, more eager

To hurtle insults and blame

Till “evil bitch” is synonymous with my name

I thought the silence meant

We just didn’t care

Apparently for you it meant

You cursed my name like a prayer

Every night you prayed on your knees

Begging the lord my soul to keep

Locked in a tomb of isolated despair

With no one to find me, no one to care

And here I thought we agreed

A life apart was what we need

You do you 

And I do me

Your miles long texts read

Like a Homeric Odyssey

Showing me the path

To wander into your wrath

It’s unnerving to be so hated

By a man so self-medicated

He spends most of his days sedated

In a forest of misery, isolated

You accuse me of having no heart

My organ you snapped like a twig

Before pushing me to the dirt floor

Of a grave you made me dig

You left me for dead out there

Alone and scared

No protection or cover 

Made me believe nobody cared

And now that I’m strong

Now that I’ve overcome

You so badly want to destroy

The woman I’ve become

In the end we all grow

To become the person

Who we needed

When we were young

Despite everything

Against my best, best judgment

I left open a door

Just a crack — nothing more

Enough light to guide you

Home to me if you wished

Just a shot in the dark

How could I be so foolish?

For years I used to dream

Hope for your love’s return often

Now I see the truth —

That love’s buried in a forgotten coffin.