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Nothing is wrong to you is it

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By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago 1 min read
Nothing is wrong to you is it
Photo by Dylan Sauerwein on Unsplash

you never do anything

It’s all me

I slide a curtain over us, and silver silence was the key.

I never do anything wrong I’ll never change, you used to tell me, “live with it or leave”

So I left

But you relentlessly

Kept a trail behind,

Bread crumbs,

Tracking,

Never mind that I tried to break out,

I was doing it so “half assed”

Just like my cleaning.

You refused to tell me how we can

Be safe

How things can be “better”

How much it meant once upon a time

When I believed you could’ve been my knight in dying, I mean

Shining armor.

Nothing is wrong to you

Is it?

Nothing is wrong

Unless I’m finally gone

Then it’s too late

Your medicine, paid,

You gave me a taste,

I swallowed it all for you

And choked on it

Like a normal thing

We’re all normal here,

My perfect blanket 0f malaise.

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About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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