Electric Blanket

by Samara Elizabeth Vance   Apr 23, 2011


You've left a coldness in me;
one my electric blanket can't even fix.

I can't believe I trusted you!
Gave you my heart.
Gave you my soul.
Why was that not enough?

In return, you gave them all back
but in more pieces than when I entrusted them to you.

A lie, you say? A lie that I loved you?
How can a word mean so much, but not enough?
It's everything to me.
For you, it must be nothing.

The real lie was yours.
Your kisses were fake.
Your promises, destructive.
"We all do stupid things" you said to me.

I can't believe you thought that made it justified.

They said keep your chin up!
I laughed.

More fish in the water?
My bait is decayed.

This distance you crave will not only hurt me
but will make me dead in places the heart can't reach.

To me, the reality of our miles has not registered
but it feels like you're on another planet in orbit with mine;
perpetually so close, but just out of reach.

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