One-Sided Care

Author’s Note: The following is the 9th poem in my self-challenge to write a poem a day. Click here for the first poem in this challenge. Thank you for reading and wish me luck to keep the pace ❤

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I cried again tonight.

Once more, you didn’t notice.

An expert at concealing it,

I laughed, and you, confident

In your own ignorance,

Believed me in a moment.

.

I know you think you see

Me. But truthfully, you

Consistently fail to see

Me. And I have come to

Believe you don’t care

One way or the other.

.

How can you not care?

I try, but I can’t understand you.

What’s worse, is that I still care —

What you think, what you do.

.

I want so much to just let go —

Of you, of us. Of me.

Why can’t I let go?

What is it that won’t let me be?

.

I cried again tonight.

Once more, you didn’t notice.

An expert at concealing it,

I laughed, and you, content

In your own ignorance,

Believed me. So be it.

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© Lena Folkert 2022

Also published on Medium

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