Edmund Siejka Poet Narrative

On a Personal Note

On A Personal Note

by Edmund Siejka

They didn’t fit
Like bookends
Or what people might describe
As a nice looking couple.
Seeing them together made a jarring sound
Like chalk clawing on blackboard
But what was so bad about this new couple?

I knew why.
She left me for him.

It took me a really long time to understand 
What it meant to forgive someone
And I always wondered could I 
Forgive someone who chose to hurt me?

She knew me all along
She had me figured out a long time ago
Sometimes I would catch her staring at me
With that look on her face
Was it a sneer?
Or just a funny face?
I was too stupid to know the difference. 

Perhaps I didn’t realize what I had done to her
Allowing myself to be surrounded by shadowy people 
Believing in them 
Following them
But they cared less about me
Than I did for them.

For weeks and months
I thought only about her
Eager to scale the wall that surrounded her heart
To say I loved her
But obviously I failed
Because if we accidently met 
All I got
Was a quick turn of her back 
Ignoring my presence. 

So, I decided the only thing I could do
Was to let her go
And start over again.

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