"This isn't how things are supposed to be"
she said.
"I'm so sorry you have to hear all this"
she said.

If she really means this,
then why doesn't she make the effort necessary to save everything from falling apart?
Why doesn't she stand up so her voice can be heard when she's right?

Why can't she care 100% for once...
not be halfway here in mind.
Like things are supposed to be.
Don't be a hypocrite...
I don't need another in my life.
But please just try to open your eyes
and keep our family together.
Because I can't do it by myself.

You burned a tattoo on my heart
that I used to be proud of wearing.


But people don't lie when they say removing a tattoo
is much more painful then getting the tattoo in the first place.

You said she was patronizing
that was a new vocabulary term.
But it was really you that was guilty.

You called everyone a hypocrite,
even me sometimes...even before you hated me.
I guess that was another vocabulary term that I learned
by example.

I knew you're world shined to bright

but I didn't think it would blind me for life.