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Old Flame

January 5, 2017
By Anonymous

I might be able to understand why you just started ignoring me.
I get that I’m a little boring and I don’t smoke pot.
I complain about politicians often.
I’m not the most physically affectionate girlfriend.
And I might not be the prettiest person you could have dated.

But, that still doesn’t give you the right to just stop talking to me.
That doesn’t give you right to try and make me jealous with snapchats of you
Getting high with other, prettier girls.
I don’t understand why you didn’t say anything;
Instead you left me alone in a toilet without flushing me away.

I think the worst part is that I’m still here and you know that.
Even though you avoid eye contact in the halls no matter how much I look at you,
You know I’m still here, you know how you hurt me.
You might not have known how much I loved you because I never said it too often.
Maybe you think I deserve this, or maybe you think it’s funny.

But the least you could’ve done was text me even though you know how much I hate that.
Maybe you had something planned but you forgot.
This tells me how much of a dung-beetle coward you are.
It tells me that you never deserved my time at all.
I don’t know, I’d say I don’t care but I really do.

It’s not like you’d listen in the first place, anyway.


The author's comments:

This is a piece I wrote in my creative writing class. We had to pick a writing prompt for a poem out of a bag. I wrote this one about my recent ex-boyfriend at the time who I still wasn't over. When we read our work aloud to the class, I started crying. I didn't really know why. But writing this poem helped me get over the guy and now I'm in a better relationship!


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