When you write sweet nothings
On her Facebook wall
Like a giddy teenager
Smiley faces and exclamation marks
Completely unsuited to your sullen ways
It’s like rubbing salt into the wounds
You’ve created in my heart
Any scrap of affection she throws
you devour, ravenously
falling over yourself
in comparison
you deal with me in measured doses
careful and calculated
perhaps it’s the open abandonment with which you love her
that hurts the most
and those rules and frameworks, you have for me,
that are so eagerly thrown, amended or abandoned
to suit her every whim and fancy
when she decides she will love you for a bit
those days when she has no one better to do
I remember the years you spent
In the depths of your despair
Caused by her rejection of your love
Swearing how you’ll never, EVER, let her close
The you that you were then
Is me now
I am hopeful though
That Facebook will devise
A permanent “defriend” button soon
You know the kind that says
De-friend forever
So that I don’t leave giddy comments on your FB page
At a “heaven forbid” date
in the future!
Sashikala Premawardhane
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October 25, 2013 at 6:35 am
Simple, clear and cutting. Kudos, and thank you for sharing.
October 25, 2013 at 10:49 am
Thanks 🙂