Your deception consumes me,
violating my thoughts
the way you violated my trust.
Whenever I am alone,
my thoughts turn to you.
I cannot even begin to understand
what would make you tell these lies.
All the rules I broke,
the risks I took to keep you safe,
I guess they meant nothing to you.
Lying to the police for seven months,
hiding in the dark apartment,
always ready to sneak you out
I realize now was a waste.
I could have been arrested
yet I still took the chance.
I thought it was worth it
if it meant you would be safe
from the pain your family brought you.
Did any of this cross your mind
when you decided to disappear?
You made me promise to never leave you,
now it is you who have left me.
Do you realize how many people you hurt?
Do you even care?
How long were you planning?
Did it amuse you to lie to me?
Did you laugh with these new friends
about how easy it was to deceive me?
Do you think about what you left behind
and know that you can never get it back?
Does it matter at all to you
or are we just more people in your past
that you choose to avoid?
Tanya M. Costa
9/17/06
Are there even words that can express
these emotions, feelings, sensations that
are rushing through me like the train that brought you into our lives?
Can any word possibly capture the intensity
that is building stronger inside of me
as each day passes and leave my questions still uanswered?
My life, my world, reeks of your deceit.
I can feel it clinging to me like pus oozing from an open sore.
You are like an infection that began as a speck of bacteria
that slipped past my defenses, taking up space inside me and calling me your own.
I am the doctor and the patient,
trying to heal you from within myself
only to realize that by treating you,
I am killing me.
I tear angrily at the flesh that closes you in,
ripping at your holds and throwing you from me.
I am alone within myself now,
my flesh raw and vulnerable.
Slowly I doctor the remains of the illness you brought into me.
I grow stronger with each day.
I grow stronger with each smile.
I have removed the disease inside me
and slowly healing, I walk on alone.
Tanya Costa
8/31/06
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