Katie Bergen

Realization

Once i bled for you.
poured my pulsing soul
upon the tar
of the black top
and watched you.
watched, 
with mystified disenchantment
as your scornful words
sacraficed vitality
and left an empty shell,
a sucking gash
still pouring the remains
of a faded life
onto a concrete
pedestal of death.
and it wasn't until now
when your existence is
but a crumbling memory
that i cried the tears
that long huddled
in cringing eyes.
because finally my mind
spread open a hidden  palette
and displayed for me
exactly hhow easy it had been
for you to take all that i was
and ANNIHILATE it....

Avoidance

  Avoidance   
    How about...
             we stop dodging the subject.
  Stop running around
in useless
        familiar circles
and get to the point.
  It doesn't preserve my 
               fragile feelings
when you don't say 
           what your thinking
  but i can see it in your eyes.
So how about you 
         say it
   so i don't have to guess...
       guess why
you look the other way
 and smile 
       at the others
               and whisper
 in there ears,
      all those things i know
your thinking
             but are still
   afraid
           to say
                  to me