Don’t Look At Me That Way

A Poem

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you thought i could fix us,
but i didn’t have the tools
to tear down the house
and build a new foundation

your eyes accused me
for all the things i couldn’t do,
those areas where i failed you,
the words that disappointed you

and maybe i could have done the work
and put in all the time in midnight moments —
but we were broken, love, you have to see
because there’s no other ending for you and me

i could’ve kissed your tears
and treated the wounds
before they became scars —
but it was always too late

i left you waiting at the train station,
and you gave up and departed
on the first ride out of town
just to get away from it all

i loved you, i did, don’t say i didn’t —
but there’s never going to be a future
where we can be in the same sphere
joined together in some unholy bliss