Poetry

Congratulations

I love you and I need you

But I hate you and I won't

Don't make me swallow promises,

Stop trying, please, just don't.

There is nothing I can ask you

You're never here for me

I've begged and cried and pleaded,

But you never want to see.

All your pretty words are nothing

When you never follow through

You make promises and break them

I've stopped listening to you.

Yet each one steals my breath away

My hope pathetically renewed,

To shatter with your failure

So I'm not listening to you.

Each time you make your promises,

Forget each and every one,

You break me down so slowly

Why won't you look at what you've done?

I'll never trust again

Perhaps it's not your fault alone,

But you've played your part in breaking me

Don't forget me when I'm gone.