Mary E-A. K. Remaniak Poetry

Attempts at being civil
Turn into refuting annoying jokes.
Not building up...not obligated to.
Why should I say yes
When you say no?
Conversation now stilted
And laughs strained into polyps.
Nodes result from the effort
To scream at stupidity
And blindness to all surrounding
Circumstances and me.
"Why do you hate me?"
~I don't.
"Nevermind, I know why."
Well, if you insist that I do,
Maybe I should start...
It's be less work than being pleasant
And you think it's the truth anyway.
I'll live my own life away from you
And not look back....
The memories almost gone already
From refusing to remember them.
What's one more numbing blow
To a heart already shattered?
If anything, it might bring relief.
Who knows what went and goes on
Behind closed doors...and open glass?
Questions trying to make white sheep
Black and laugh at the dye.
I didn't want this to happen...
But things can only go so far
Before cracks appear and I leave...
Just as you did before.

Poet: Mary E-A. K. Remaniak