SECLUSION

Jessica C. Largado

I closed my eyes so I wouldn’t see

How you smiled at her, how you were happy

How your eyes shone brightly

How you looked at her with sincerity.

I closed my ears so I wouldn’t hear

The sweet words that you always told her

How much you loved every piece of her

And how much you’d changed because of her.

I closed my mouth so I couldn’t say

The words I’d been wanting to tell you each day

That I loved you even if your heart was away

That I loved you even if you didn’t see me.

I closed my heart so I wouldn’t feel

The pain you caused that made me ill

The pain that made me suffer for years

The pain that killed my senses, it made them disappear.

I closed the door of my heart to you

So you couldn’t enter, you couldn’t see me blue

I’ll just be inside, wait for someone brave to

Knock and do the things I wished you’d done a long time ago.