Why must I bleed to prove I love

Why must I sacrifice and compromise 

While you look into my eyes and tell me lies 

Why does my brain hold onto a word

Why won’t my heart believe the action

While your effort to mine is but a fraction 

Am I the woman you love 

Or merely a hostage 

Walking on eggshells, oh so cautious 

You’re smiling and playful I drop my guard

Weight on my body is abated

Though the foreboding leaves me deflated

Idealize, devalue, discard, it’s the cycle they say

No matter what I do I’m the villain

I love you, you say, and all is forgiven 

Not today, not this time, not ever again 

I won’t take the bait 

I will no longer be your profligate, my thrown I abdicate

By Becca Hulen

From: United States