You thought I might have lasted longer, loved you better, if I was stronger I'd bloom in the stony garden you grew in, because somehow it's weak, unwilling to will a future where saving you means selling me and buying the deed to a house with hardened hearts where they tell the children stories about their motherβs lies, how she wiles her way into the mind of their father and donβt you worry, darlings, they whisper *there there, in these arms youβre safe.
I couldn't live like that, even for you. You who I love.