Sola

Silence

Is all that’s between us

There used to be so much more

What happened?

I did

You did

But what did we really do together?

We were there for each other

My stomach is turning while thinking of you

Like overeating food that makes you ill

You used to give me butterflies

Listening to you play guitar was once so soothing

Now I want to take it and smash it over your head

That’s a lie

I still love you

I just hate when you make me mad

People are forever ungrateful

I too fall into this category

I just thought you were different

Like a lone black girl in a group of white ones

Searching for beauty supplies in their dorm rooms only to find hair ties and flat-irons

Nothing of use is there for that black girl with her natural hair stretching towards the trees outside

Might as well feel the breeze and let it carry away all thoughts and traces of you