Literature
Deaf
I didn't hear you well enough, I guess, seeing that you've gone.
Turns out you don't want me anymore and that we both are moving on.
I thought I heard it all before and I thought I heard you say…
You'll be there for me always and love me more every day.
You clogged my ears with sweet nothings, everything you didn't mean,
And when all was said and done, it felt so very wrong and unclean.
To have openly shared my heart and sewn you so deeply within,
I couldn’t deny what I wanted to hear from you- and that is my sin…
That I wanted to hear you say you stayed partly because of me,
And that I was what kept you going an