You’ve caused my heart
a great deal of pain over the years,
though at the moment
I can’t even feel it in my chest.
There’s a certain emptiness
swimming through my inward parts,
and I don’t know when (or if)
feeling will return.
I gave you the best of me,
the most genuine pieces of myself,
and though that meant witnessing
my worst moments as well,
it also meant you saw me
when I was vulnerable and afraid,
and your callous responses remain
burned into my nightmares to this very day.