“This is the third time, why do I keep letting this happen?”
“You’re not letting it happen.”
You were: boring,
didn’t give enough,
selfish and uncaring,
spoke only in mistakes.
Not mature enough
to understand him.
Nights lost to nerves,
mapping the break & bend:
a nonexchangeable currency
in less-than-democratic states.
Full stop.
Emptiness.
No user input allowed;
only the User’s commands.
You forgot
his smile
& you forgot
his touch.
Other marks
persisted.
His insults
echoed
& you remembered
how you believed.
by Andrew Hinkley