Poem #127

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You told me you didn't understand how someone could just walk away like that. I told you. You must have been crazy to believe I would have stayed. I left at the first warning shot. As if it was aimed at me. You still don't know who it was aimed at. You still don't know why you shot it. But your face makes me sick to my stomach and I can't explain it. You say I remind you of abandonment that I've haunted you with the way I've left. You tell me all you needed was a text. But I couldn't explain it. I couldn't find the words to say it. I fled our love. As if I didn't spend months making it. I left you dry as if you weren't the one that filled my life. But I had to run at the first warning shot. To me that was a sign to you that was a mistake. But another boy made the same mistake, and when I didn't run the first time. I allowed it so many other times. You may not be as bad as him. But I can't risk it. I can't risk a life with a guy that's sort of like him.

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