I’ve rehearsed this conversation too many times, it’s not healthy, yet I sit with the loop, You conversed the observation to elegant rhymes, set to pit against my group, I’ve cohered your retaliation with great climbs, drowning in this coupe. You submersed my desperations with beautiful crimes, killing the hope with a noose. I’ve come to believe the words you told me like the back of my hands, They broken me down into a burst of a hurricane’s torrent, empty and hollow, silent in the core. Every layer above and around, a swirling downburst corroding my integrity till it’s gone. Even now when you are gone, the damage still erodes the soul that is my own. Why was my best never good enough for you, for you to deconstruct my very worth like a chore? Enough was never enough, and I can’t sleep because of the trauma you instilled to the bone. I want to learn to heal, either for myself, or the child you stole from me. I want to learn to be me once again, and not the hollow husk you