You said you hated all the fighting that you got into with your friends on group chat and you couldn’t stand the drama

You were misunderstood by your team you said

No one seemed to understand your off-brand wisdom

I worked to the bone to unravel your complicated mess because you looked at me with pity

You needed help you said. My strength is that I always respond with empathy, you said.

But drama seemed to bloom wherever you walked, like poison ivy

I wish I realized sooner

That you liked the taste of blood drawn on my cracked lips when you kissed me

You hated that I fought my way into that hurricane’s eye void of a hole you call a heart and saw in plain sight,

You were not enough