How it Ends

How can you cut the string

When we were CABLE cars?

You bound to the west coast

With no CONSTRAINT

A free man at last.

The DISTANCE has gone to your head

And I'm no longer in the EQUATION

Our love the unfortunate SACRIFICE

To the alter of your dreams.

I'm INCAPABLE of seeing your side

The way you QUALIFY your time

Your silent tongue abandons my name

Like I don't exist anymore.

PAT my head, so patronizing

And swear that we'll be fine.

You PRACTICE pretty PARAGRAPHS

Write empty prose

The cliché thoughts that TUMBLE

From your mind.

But they are not for me.

Generic and DEMOCRATIC

Just vague enough

That any girl could apply their meaning

To themselves

What were we?

What was I?

Do you mean to PROVOKE me

With this silence?

Is this some kind of test

Of my faith?

I BAN thoughts of you from my mind.

Abandon the DESPAIR

And all the memories

that are guilty by ASSOCIATION.

I PREDICT that I will forget you soon

I could SQUASH the beef

But I don't want to.

I don't have a forgiving GENE in my body

And hating you brings me comfort

The PROSECUTION rests.

It's been seven years

So don't come back

I'm fine without you now.