I Care a Little Less Today
Shrugging it all off
I imagine you...
Coming home from work
Our usual conversation point is me asking
"Hey hun, how was your day?"
But today...
I know that when you come home
I won't ask this
Because time and time again...
I have been hurt by your lack of care
And it's teaching me
To also care less.
So today when you come home
And I don't ask
And you wonder why I don't
Especially because you're having
A pretty significant event
In a career that you don't even pursue
(But things just happen, I guess)
I'll look at you...
Smile.
And say the same thing you say...
"You can tell me if you want"
And add a little note at the end...
"Because I don't really care."
Sorry, not sorry.
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love your poems , so amazing
I hope things get better.
Very touching article! Don't ask, only give, a saint told his student before dying. In the realm of relations you have to examine deep the cause of the problem, but never stay pathetic for too long.
We can see so much unspooling from here.
Wow
As a person who cares a lot, this resonated with me so deeply! I'm so sorry this is happening to you 🥺
Interesting
As an obstinate bachelor, I must say that literary sources of insight into the ordinary everydayness of matrimony seldom move me to reconsider. You clearly have oceans of thought and feeling to share with someone; why isn't someone who ostensibly loves you interested in seizing that opportunity?!?
This is sad and I hope it gets better or you leave. 🥲😟