How


How can someone

Who begged for me,

Who begged for my time, my care, my love

Turn away from me like this?




How can someone

Who saw me at my greatest,

When I tend the wounds of all,

Soothe, console, repair

Dry tears and stroke hair

Abandon someone who would never

Abandon them




How can someone

Who witnessed my transformation every time

I had a new story to tell

Eyes alight and face ablaze

Relishing in the laughs, the faces, all watching me

Hurt me,

Make me step away from a spotlight I adored




How can someone

Who saw a devotion in my eyes

No one has ever seen before

Loving caresses and prideful smiles

Where there had only ever been grabbing and lustful grins

Cast me aside, as if you were nothing to me




How could you?
© Mia Joseph, 2023