The Open Canvas [Poetry]

Cruel Kindness

I did not ask you for your help but you chose to give it anyways.
You hurt me more than the words I have spoken these days.
I don't know if I should hate you or thank you enough.
I feel trapped by your words like a suspect in a handcuff.

But if I think hard, I was filled with great consternation.
I don't think I was ready to face this situation.
Your words held me down and battered me in the head.
I really thought I was left for dead.

But you were the only one who actually told me the truth.
You were the fountain that supplied me with endless youth.
Your brutal love did show me the way.
I am no longer lost, I finally found my place to stay.

-Amanda ❤