So You Say You Love Me

You finally give them to me,

The words I waited and ached for

So long…

Spears of hurt thrown

Into the frigid, deep of an ocean

That no longer belongs to you

A place of secrets and sly, slippery

Fish, bottom feeders

And forlorn creatures

That your words miss

This time

Because I’ve learned

That a hunter of your caliber

Only aims for the kill.

I’ve learned to survive

And outlived your lies

Now you

Weep; melancholy whimpers

Penetrating the ocean

Like the moans

of a stranded whale.