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You Kill Me With Kindness

you kill me with kindness
you feed me words~~~
such sweet delicacies
crafted with care
sugar coated flair
you want to spare
me from bitterness

you kill me with kindness
terms of endearment
no longer true
take on a different hue
what once was my due
now leaves me blue
but you haven't got a clue

so, you kill me with kindness
perpetrator of pretense
you think it makes sense
I'm not amnesia afflicted
in false familiarity, gifted
free of blame, you're uplifted

you kill me with kindness
you think....it's Ok
let bygones be gone
it's a new day

and....yet again...
you kill with kindness
when once
you brought me life
with 
your 
love

Eileen Manassian

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Richard Lamoureux

Date: 9/17/2017 9:20:00 AM

Your poem has a familiar feel Eileen. Was this one you wrote a while ago? This makes me think of the scroll that tasted like honey but turned sour in the stomach. "false familiarity" great word paring it denotes deception and a strange intimacy. Only someone close can reach such an essential part of you.

Eileen Manassian
Date: 9/17/2017 12:20:00 PM

No, Richard. This isn't a rewrite. I was in the car the other day when this came to me. Kindness, almost any good thing can have a twist to it if used in the wrong way. To to acknowledge a hurt and pretend that it doesn't exist is the cruelest form of kindness there is. I have a new poem up. This one is a happy one! :) Hugs

Silent One

Date: 9/15/2017 3:23:00 PM

Maybe he does know, but pretends he does not.. Such is this situation between so many couples, especially those who have been together a long time.. You covered the aspect of not being loved like you were, very well.. A deep write..

Eileen Manassian
Date: 9/17/2017 4:03:00 AM

Thanks, SO. Many people hurt and then pretend that nothing's wrong. Keeping up the pretense when it involves someone who was once a loved one is difficult. To admit hurt, is to admit there are still feelings, so...one suffers inside. Thanks for the visit.