A THOUSAND AND ONE WORDS

don't be a stranger

don't be a stranger

that's what you wrote in my birthday card

that i had emotionally abused you enough

that you put up with more than enough from me

a master manipulator, my friends call you

the way you twist my words and thoughts

to make me run back to you every time

it was like living in a simulation

and as soon as i cracked the code

you cracked it

but i don't understand how

you wanted me to not be a stranger

while the strangeness of this situation

meant we were always strangers.

i'm sorry to have to say it

but if this is all our friendship was

then we were never friends

you can't even look at me anymore

and call me self-destructive all you want

tell me i'm playing the victim

maybe i am

i don't know anymore

this whole thing is so twisted

so convoluted

i don't know what's up or down anymore

i just know

that i don't want to know you

not like this

i hope we can be polite again someday

but we can't be friends again

because you can't be something again

if you weren't it in the first place.