Thick Water
It’s rotten how I get conveniently forgotten.
When you need something from me is when it’s on and popping.
I got a heart that wasn’t meant for breaking.
So what’d you think would happen if y’all just kept on forsaking?
I do my best to treat others as I wish to be done
Tried to harden myself yet ended wound tight or completely undone.
Made attempts to inform you thought I was speaking a dead language
And when I spelled it out for you, y’all had the nerve to get angry?!
You fell back like you had reason to be offended
But all you did was to become callous over me driving in front of you just once...you’ve gotten all upset and I was the one that was rear ended.
I pray a lot wishing not to spit spite or hate
Thought blood was thicker than water
Now I’m just straight cold right?
Frozen lake type of DNA
I didn’t want to throw shade
Now I dance with a thin ledge
You can’t make me hate you because it’s so much bigger and you have had time for a graphic clue.
I must though I didn’t want to
I abhor you
I have my reasons and you know it’s a heavy truth
So I won’t cry for dumping the milk let it spill to the floor
We don’t have to be related
You are less than a strange stranger
Family nevermore.
Copyright © Jelani Hall | Year Posted 2017
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