How Do You know


How Do You know
By Ann A. Straut

How do you know
How to hurt me just so?
What can I do
To make you see
That you’re hurting yourself and not just me?

The pain of rejection
Without knowing why
What did I do
To make you hide
To turn away when I was by your side?

What gift do you have
That makes you quite mad
Every time you hear
A single mention of me
And can you ever let it be?

The anger inside you
Boils away what you knew
And in its place
Mishaps, bad memories, mistakes
Blaming me for memories you hate

As we grow old and apart
One last time I impart
What can I do
To make you see
That you’re hurting yourself and not just me?

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