You're hurting me
Although I know
you don't mean to.
You do it from the ignorance
of your heart.
You ask
"How are you?"
with tones of insensitivity,
and I say good
like I wish I meant it.
Trying to express
with one false word
how badly I wish I could
punch your face.
But your asking
Throws me back in time.
"Take care"
Like you're saying goodbye.
Like I'm not good enough
for you to take the time
to look me in the eyes.
It was hard to learn to feel for you,
Knowing it was a mistake all along.
I'll turn the tables
of our relationship
in opposite directions
so you can realize
how easily I've come to the understanding
that abandoning myself for you
was wrong.
I remember now where I belong.