Restart

You tell me you will change
but I am not allowed to.

If it comes to abandonment
then I shall cast you away first
and build myself up

again, from the first
handful of dust.

Bad Love

Perceptions shatter
When no longer viewed by the gaze of love
Rosy innocence severed by the paramour
Who seduced and abandons

Abandoned

When I was a little girl
My greatest sin was leaving
A kitten in the rain
Abandoned and alone, crawling along
the pavement, kneeling at my feet
Too afraid
To cuddle up to me

I reached down to stroke it
And it gratefully wiped itself dry on my jeans
Purring all the while

Want to keep it, I conferred with my sisters
Could not keep it, agreed with my sisters
And left it on the other side of the road
Crying after us

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