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Mar 2021
It's ****** up what you do to me
Playing games with my head
You've given me your cold shoulder for weeks
Now suddenly you want back in my bed?

You expect me just to open my arms
Let you wiggle back inside?
After you turned my life upside down
The reason behind tears I cried

You must think I'm an idiot
I've forgiven you every time before
I guess somehow I always will
But I can't trust you anymore

You're too deeply embedded in my heart
For me to remove all the way
Like a splinter underneath my skin
Your memory will forever stay

Although I will never stop loving you
I have to learn to live without your touch
Because it kills me to pour my all into a person
Who simply doesn't care as much

When I have your attention I soar
Your gaze makes me feel like I can fly
But intoxicating emotions crash down
The instant you say goodbye

You talk to me when it's convenient for you
But ignore me as soon as it's not
How can you throw my heart away
Then ask me for another shot?

It isn't fair what you're doing
I am just a toy for you to break
When you're done and I am left damaged
You escape free of scars or heartache

You used up all the good in me
But I guess that wasn't enough
Because you came back for the rest
Too bad I'm not giving it up

I know all too well how this will end
It's stupid to even hope
That maybe you have actually changed
You say you will but you won't

If I was what you really wanted
You wouldn't have abandoned me here
It's not a relationship with me you're after
Your intentions I read loud and clear

I can't say exactly why you returned
Maybe your new life isn't working out
But don't think I will let you fill me with lies
Just because it's you I dream about

Although I wish we could be together
Experience the same bond we had before
Yesterday must remain in the past
We aren't those people anymore

If your words were true at all
You would have been loyal from the start
Of course it's easy to miss me now
After spending months apart

I am sure if I succumbed to your charm
Welcomed you into my embrace
As soon as you realized you had me
You'd no longer yearn to see my
face

You've always wanted things you can't have
If it's easy it isn't fun
But you can go mess with someone willing
Because I mean it when I say I'm done

My feelings for you are stronger than ever
Why I will never know
But you are bad for my sanity
So I must learn to let you go

I'm sure there are reasons behind your mistakes
Justification for hurtful things you do
You can say sorry a million times if you'd like
But it won't make your apology true
Amanda Kay Burke
Written by
Amanda Kay Burke  29/F/Alaska
(29/F/Alaska)   
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     --- and Lori Jones McCaffery
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