Trash

by Baby Rainbow   Dec 31, 2020


The smell of your smoke still lingers,
reminding me of one more thing that you refuse to give up.
You have never looked so small and frail,
loneliness oozing out of your eyes.

A part of me feels empathy for the lonely person you became,
but only you had the choice to not throw away the bond we could have had.

You chose him, instead of us.
It was form that day that I felt like you had abused me too,
to shut me out and wrap yourself around a monster
who has degraded you, betrayed you, and completely ruined you!
To choose to blame me now more than ever for your loneliness
because he decided he could throw you away for someone else,
perhaps will give you an idea of how our family felt
when you tossed us in the trash for that designated ***hole.

I appear patient, though I feel red,
but I am in fact calm.
It used to boil my blood to know
that you turned your love off for me and kept it on for him.
But that is when I realised you are not my responsibility,
you are not my guilt,
you are no longer even my aunty.

You are just simply another disappointment.

Saffie
27

31/8/18
10.17pm

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  • 3 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    This is utterly heart-breaking, even in the opening lines:
    "The smell of your smoke still lingers,
    reminding me of one more thing that you refuse to give up."

    While I think people can have the power to change, it's important who and what they continuously choose. And shutting you out, mistreating you, etc was a choice they made and have to deal with. You will never owe them anything. And who people decide to be with matters and definitely represents their character.

    I feel that surge of anger, then recognition in the last few lines. There's almost a sense of closure, or at least understanding, in letting yourself feel the anger and process it, knowing why and how it came to be. This is personal, though it feels all too familiar to me in regards to someone choosing a toxic person over you, and the neglect and hurt that ensues. The line that hit me the most? "you are not my guilt". That phrase is so crucial and, though I'm sure it's a hard realization, I hope there is some healing in separating from them and doing so for your own mental health. You mentioned empathy earlier, and I think that's incredibly human, to still have that empathy (though there's nothing wrong if you don't), yet knowing there has to be boundaries otherwise they will try to keep pinning things on you. Now, they have to sit in the hurt and pain that has been passed down, and process it for themselves.

  • 3 years ago

    by Maher

    It's hard watching someone you love fall into anything toxic, especially relationships. The hurt in this can be felt. May she come to her senses and change her situation for the better.

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