Bella Shepard

A Necessary Evil

I do not love you

At times I hate you

But I need you in my world

Without you I am disconnected

You are fickle in the attention you pay

On again, off again

I can barely keep up

You deliberately torment me

Changing, morphing

Leaving me behind

And each time I must learn anew

How to live with you

You are unforgiving of my mistakes

And when I feel I will never find my way back

You mock and torment me

My life is inextricably linked to yours

And if could I live without you

I would

But until then

You are a necessary evil

And my only hope is that

Someone, somewhere

Will show me the way

To recover the files that I mistakenly deleted

I could have sworn I hit “save