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.