Saturday, September 23, 2023

Your Love Is a Lie

Your love is a lie
It's selfish and vile
You don't love me 
but the idea of me that you made up 
You won't accept me for who I truly am 
My identity to you is "nonsense"
It's make believe, over the top, just too much 
You won't respect my pronouns 
So you don't respect me 
If that's the way you want it 
Then this is where I must go now 
Because I'm not gonna keep you around 
I love and respect myself more than that 
I spoke my piece 
But you wouldn't listen 
You just tried to center yourself 
and silence me 
I let you go for my own sanity 
Then you called and texted 
but I won't respond 
I know where that would lead 
My identity and pronouns aren't something 
you get to "agree to disagree" on
So the sound of my silence is all you'll get back