*HARDLY*

Tearing slowly with teeth
At the skin on my lips
Hardly seems a proper punishment
For the anguish I’ve inflicted
Upon your person.

And it hardly seems fair
That I’m tasting my tears
While you’re wasting away
Waiting for the sign of things…
The time to say your lines

In a word: upheaval
I’ve uprooted your life with hardly
A second glance or apology
Cursed you with harshness and
Ransacked your romanticism

Left you with nothing.
A bruised heart torn by terse words
Mangled by insanity and false idol worship
And lost in my arms I grasp you ever more
Tightly…wishing I could make it better…hardly.
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