expectations

i. what did i expect?

you always said the world was

cold, dark, cruel -

what did i expect it to do

after we went from

everything to nothing?

ii. a smile feigned in sadness,

my heart in your long,

grasping hands;

you are gone.

and i am broken, naked;

an open wound for

the world to infect.

but what did i expect?

you are a disease.

iii. you taught me well and

i was ready when

the world came for me.

but that didn’t make it any easier

to realize that it was you;

i didn’t expect you

to blame the world

for what you had done to me.