She
Relentless.
You
Relent.
You
Circumvent.
She
Blocks.
You
Plead.
She
Pleads harder.
You try to speak.
She shushes.
You say it's wrong
She says you're wrong
You want some distance
She creeps closer
You say: "hey, stop"
She says: "did you say something, dear"?
You say: "Can't you hear"?
She says: "Did you say something, dear"?
You say: "I said stop, please stop".
She says: "Stop shouting".
You say: "Please, please".
She says: I'm your friend
I'm your friend, she says.
You wound me when you say
Stop, stop.
Am I a monster
That must be stopped?
You wound me when you say
You want
some space.
Am I pariah to be
pushed away?
You wound me when you say
please, please.
Am I a tyrant that you should
cringe and beg?
All this she asks.
of
me.
I cannot answer.
There is a burr
Blocking.
Where has all the air gone?
