THE LINE
No matter how many times you are told, you do not listen
Your necessity to push the envelope pushed my eyes to continually glisten
No matter the many times you think this shit's getting old
You still did not control your urge to turn a blind eye to the story as it unfolds
Your vision astigmatic enough to shift your perspective into a custom-made cocoon
Don't give me that fertilized babblement
That you did not see
That you could not see
It is that you would not see
The line
The line was real and oh so tangible
It makes me cringe to think of the excessive and oh so extensive warnings you did not heed
The more I said "you better lookout, there is danger ahead!"
The more you looked at me with blame, and stuck to your heels
But that blame was for your shame
So go ahead, blame me, I can take accountability for the lack of my fragility
My so called vulnerability did not hamper the communication lines
Having you so desperately hunting for your wire cutters
Congratulations, you succeeded just in time
In one swift move you shredded what I once thought was so imbedded in our souls
Didn’t I tell you?
In my whispers, in my screams, in my tortured written pleas
Be careful, be warned, be alert for where you tread is not an unmarked mine field
And in so taking my macheted efforts to reach past your impetuous nature
I was blind to your deceitful manipulative antics
Though just one simple conversation would have freely lifted your sentence
We both held strong to a belief that NO! It could never happen
So mystifyingly similar, yet so apart when you dropped me into the abyss
So far down there never was a final kiss
She thought, his love for me could never end
He thought, her love for me could never end
Oh let us cry now for our erroneous vows
You couldn't hold her shrugging your shoulders
You couldn't speak your mind, I’m sorry, was there any to find?
I was wrong; your love had a finish line
But in your rightness of my love for you, you missed one crucial thing
And now you feel the sting as you stepped boldly and irretrievably over that line
So wide your eyes, so very shocked that I do not need yet another masked hint, and
That yes, I do love you in spite of myself
But that sucker you once knew
Has long since been put on a shelf