Transient

I often wondered
if you really knew me at all,
but now I know for sure
you never did!

How dare you try to teach me
that everything in life is transient,
when that's the harshest lesson
I have learned my entire life!

I have had people I love
constantly ripped away from my heart,
and stolen from this Earth;
some way too young to be angels.

This transient life
is what's made me
this mess of insecurity
that is trapped in a tangled web.

So don't tell me
I need to understand more
that things in life are transient,

because that is why
I told you long ago,
I never wanted you to love me
in the first place!

Saffie
24

6/12/15