Good Deeds

My good intentions went down the drain.

No good deed goes unpunished.

You were determined to misunderstand me.

You were set out to disagree.

An apology will fall on deaf ears.

It means nothing if you are not sorry for your actions.

I drew a line in the sand.

I walked away.

I vowed to never cross that line again.

I know what is good for my sanity.

I felt like I was suffocating when I was around you.

I was drowning in the ocean.

I can still taste the salt water on my breath.

I could be vague, but that is not my style.

That will not tell my story to those who listen with open ears and an open mind.

I reached my limit.

I had to say goodbye.

I had to stop trying to help you better yourself.

If you are determined to set yourself on fire,

I can’t keep hiding your gas can.

I am only slowing down events that will happen no matter what I do.

If you are determined to burn,

I have to let you.

The war is over or maybe it just began?

I stopped caring who got the last word in.

I stopped wasting my time and my breath on words you were determined to misunderstand no matter how I worded them.

No matter how much I tiptoed around the truth.

I tried being vague.

It made my tongue bleed from biting down so hard.

I learned to forgive, but I will not forget.

I wish healing to those who have wronged me.

The mind can be an awful place.

A place where no one else understanding your reasoning or why you act the way that you do.

Take a step back and reevaluate.

None of this was ever about me.

It was always about you.

My good deeds will not go unpunished.

*This poem is featured in "Peeling Sanity" Due for release in October 2018. Be sure to check out my other poetry collections on Amazon.

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