Sometimes someone who says they love us is really storing malice that slips out word by word over the years until one day it all blurts out and we see it all.
GOODBYE
There they were
Together at last
All the little words and phrases
That slipped out one by one
Over the years
Forming a phantasm
Suddenly solidified
I told you
That my son
Wondered
Why
You did not send gifts
You told me
You decided to live in shame and envy
Sending guilt-bombs instead of love
(they never explode – remember the “arrogance”)
I wondered if my messages got through
You built a shelter against them years ago
Moved in without notice and waited for war
If that’s what you want
You’ll have to have it without me
Goodbye