Slam Poetry

Coward

How can you just stand there and look me in the eyes and just lie?!

When all I ever did was just look up at the sky?!

Not once did I ever do you wrong

nor did I

snap

crack

or break you

and here you have me

all broken and shattered

when to you...

had it ever even mattered?

you always said to me

"everything is going to be okay"

but was it really?

you always promised

but for what?

if all you were ever going to do was lie

and why lie as the time went by?

what made it right to even try?

when you knew all along this was going to die

I still don't understand it

not even one bit

how did you go through with all this

and even feel some sort of bliss?

never had you attempted to let me know

until it was too late and you let me go

and you had me paralyzed

as I realized

where all this had led

and at the time, I had just wished I was dead!!!

but I didn't take it hard for so long

because I knew you were already gone

but let me tell you where you were wrong

and where you belong

you thought you had me overpowered

when all you really were was just a coward

~Catherine