Let’s sit across the room
Instead of side-by-side
“I’m too tired to talk,” I say
but really want to hide
When, how and why
did partners turn friends
the lover lose allure
even friendship end?
The needy insistent touch
now magnetic repulsion
Hug & kiss a daily duty
just dreaded compulsion
Honest attempts to renew a flame
Futile when fuel is degraded
No longer matters who’s to blame
Only that one is frustrated

Dismissed?
I’m ******!
Hey you,
I’m smart too!
always debating,
smart-woman hating,
mansplaining…
As if I never went to school,
As if you think that I’m a fool…
I’m not just a pretty thing,
a lonely girl who wants a ring.
I am intellectual, too!
I converse as good as you
if you would stop assuming
that I am always wrong.
You think I can’t do things right?
****! Why are you uptight?
Just chill with me;
be real with me;
treat me equally..
(like your man-crush buddies)
Hey!
My star won’t fit beneath your boot!.
No, man!
I was born to blaze!

So step off me; step away
Cause I will explode
In brightness
With or without
You

Is it external factors
Halting more chapters?
Or an innate absence of appeal?
Collapsing love once real…
Empty sorrow
Of endless empty tomorrows
Piercing heart is all I feel