can I not let it hurt me?

your insufficiency

I tried to look away

worked so hard to ignore

the breeze through the closed window

the rain on the floor

the fact that this just doesn't

work anymore

Is it worth the disappointment?

the heartbreak?

fighting over what it is and what it isn't

temporary and longer pains

so many things that will never be named

love laying in a pool of shame

what remains?