Open Heart Surgery

you are no longer part of me

I have been painfully oblivious to my own situation
The words you wrote in sunlight
Blinded my judgment

Even with intelligence I hold so high,
I could not outsmart the time
between us running out.

The vicous repeating cycle has
Come to an end
And I have learned my lesson

It is a relief to hang my coat
And take my shoes off in a mind that is
No longer consumed by you.
These Sapphic words will never reach
Your ears,
Because you do not deserve to hear my thoughts

There is something so freeing
About cutting the string that bound me
My wrists are allowed to breathe again,
My mind can begin to warm
And it will fill itself with the things
I enjoy.