tacenda: a book of poems

ii

I watched you leave again

Just like all those other times

I wish I could say

The words that would make you stay

Sometimes I wish you’d stay

But I’ll end crying

For there’s nothing left to say

You’ll still end up leaving

I’d look up at the sky and yell - “Why me?”

I curse the Fates and everything there is to blame

“Why can’t you just let me be?”

Those are the words I want to yell at you

I keep asking myself

Why do I keep letting you in?

Why do I let you shatter my heart over and over again?

I don’t even know why

But I do know why

It’s because I love you

And there’s nothing I can do

I am as helpless as an old man

Sometimes, I’d wish you’d say you love me too

But I know that won’t come true

For I am nothing to you

But a silly game for you to play