Slamming Doors

 

St. Croix, Dec 2021

All of these slamming doors

Fighting

Yelling things that are unable to be taken back

To be forgiven

To be neglected

And now

Regret fills the air

A sticky subtance

Humidity in the air

Others on eggshells

Or full of hope

Those that have advised you

Now wish everything would return to normal

You’ll see music played

Implies heartbreak and regret

Guilt of uselessness

Wishing a letter could have been written

Forget the weepie songs

Trying to infer the meanings

Of heartbreak

What is love

Really

Just another bad habit

Been trying to quit

Your love was a savior and a devil

A war profiteer

Of emotional violence

Looking like a sad

Dependent girl

Wanting a friend to return

So far away

A different life was meant for me

A different one is where you have headed

The brain is a staunch competitor of the heart

A rational object trying to quench reasoning

It’s your thrist for reasoning

You are left in a puddle of regret

Embarrassment

Humiliation for doing well and regressing

Losing your sobriety chip of

Broken relationships.