There was a time
Amidst teeth brushing
Confidence boosting words
Bites of carrot and flavored
Wedding dress sauce
Covered in the blood of lost lovers
I convinced you to see the truth
It was even harder for you to walk away
It was harder for you to get up everyday
It was harder for you to invest
Harder for you to see past
What wasn't just reflecting back at you
In the spoons hanging out of your
Broken and favored mouth
And with blonde lightning beams
It effected me too
As I overcame heartbreak
And coached you through all the ways
To try and make you see that you were strong too
And yet you still wanted to put me in the bedroom
Smaller than yours
Less significant than you
I couldn't possibly be mightier
Prettier
More brilliant

No.
And that.
That is why at times
I'm still so bitter
As if it were a break up
As if you, too, in the end
Held me back
And we did
We had so much fun
And I sincerely hope for more fun times to come
Because you can never really have
Enough best friends
Can you?

But I grew tired of justifying
My different colored socks
And cooking for one
To have it devoured and not replenished
I hated how our house became
Haunted with the memories we made
With men
Who didn't ******* matter in the end
And now we talk about those men
In what I imagine
To be the same way
We talk about each other.