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No Contact/No Context

By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual WarriorPublished 3 months ago 2 min read

Verse 1

You drew a line with a marker on your heart,

Said you needed quiet just to make your art.

Blocked my number like a storm you had to dodge,

Packed up every memory that didn’t fit the collage.

You called it healing, called it clean and kind,

But you trimmed out the truth like a bad headline.

Pre-Chorus

You built a wall from all the words you learned,

Set it on fire and called the ashes earned.

Chorus

No contact, no context,

You cut the cord to keep your hands undone.

No contact, no context,

Turned our family into footnotes, edited.

If you need a villain to be strong,

You’ll make me wrong, you’ll make me wrong.

No contact, no context—

But silence doesn’t prove anything at all

Verse 2

You posted our goodbye in a clever shade,

A carousel of reasons in a retro fade.

All the comments clapped like they knew our names,

But they only read the half that feeds the flames.

You crowned yourself with thorns you never wore,

Shut the door, then wrote the perfect metaphor.

Pre-Chorus

I’m left with pictures you forgot to crop,

The messy middle that you chose to drop.

Chorus

No contact, no context,

You cut the cord to keep your hands undone.

No contact, no context,

Turned our family into footnotes, edited.

If you need a villain to be strong,

You’ll make me wrong, you’ll make me wrong.

No contact, no context—

But silence doesn’t prove anything at all

Bridge

If I were the monster you’ve implied,

y]You’d sleep like stone with both eyes dry.

But I’m just a person with a softer spine,

Bad at goodbyes and worse at signs.

I’d take the blame if it bought back a letter,

I’d make it rain if you’d keep your weather.

Breakdown

Maybe comfort needs a clean-cut past,

Maybe truth is just a mirror cracked.

Maybe you’ll call when the echoes fade,

Or maybe the echo is the call you made.

Final Chorus

No contact, no context,

You burned bridges to warm your hands a minute.

No contact, no context,

wWrote a script with me as villain in it.

If being selfish makes you feel like safe,

I’ll stand outside and guard the gate.

No contact, no context—

I’m still here, if you want the rest.

sad poetry

About the Creator

Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior

Thank you for reading my work. Feel free to contact me with your thoughts or if you want to chat. [email protected]

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