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I resent...You (POEM)



I resent all that you stand for

I resent that’s what drew me to you in the first place

I resent that hating you is getting easier by the day

For my sermon to choose you seems hypocritical

I resent that I feel small to a bigger sight of you

I resent all these mixed up feelings that get me stuck in the headlights

I am not sorry; I just want you gone

If you feel that way, go the other way and let’s never meet at any crossroads

No choice should ever be birthed from this and yet the human that I am wants to reject you before you do it to me.

I despise what this is doing to me, and should just let go

But for what all that I feel can’t take away that it is still you

You built a wall and I made it permanent

Together we added bricks to cement that old grudge

For each wants to win at this battle of holding back

There is a huge lump in my throat that I am winning

It’s crazy that what led to this was just that an unspoken disappointment

I am no judge or jury but I can see the verdict that lies between us

That we are ending…

That what we could be no longer holds that trophy

We are turning into the walking dead that smells any blood as long it ain’t us

I know I will find us at any stage, shouting the loudest

Advising the multitudes for what we can never tell each other in that dark room

We turned black and blue from all that silent backlash

I can’t seem to move towards you anymore

We can’t seem to find each other in the light

For what shines brighter is we ain’t enough anymore

That truth is a consolation to me, an ointment to a wound that I carried for so long

That I no longer have to try

That loving you was becoming a loss

That gnawed on that person that once a cared

I wonder if my new found freedom means that I am that exception to a rule

That old skeleton finally out

For a reality check that I wasn’t haunted

For I was the ghost.


By UBB

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