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Boiling Over

Boiling over 

With rage inside. 

Your pain and contempt 

Barely able to hide. 

 

Selfish and cruel 

Your disrespect for me. 

My love and compassion 

You disregard uncaringly. 

 

Misguided expectations 

On how you’re to be treated. 

Wanting more than any could give 

More than ever could be needed. 

 

You take without giving 

Then act like I owe 

Your endless demands 

Leave me nowhere to go 

 

Your anger keeps rising 

Like a storm in the night 

I try to bring calm 

But you’re spoiling for a fight 

 

I’ve poured out my heart 

Till it’s hollow and sore 

Yet nothing I do 

Seems to matter anymore 

 

The weight of your scorn 

Has grown heavy to bear 

I’m tired of the chaos 

And walking on air 

 

So I’m drawing the boundary 

No more bending in two 

I’ll guard what is left 

Of the love I once knew 

 

The fire inside me 

Is now under control 

I’ll heal in the quiet 

Till I’m again made whole