YOU ALWAYS TREAT ME LIKE GARBAGE

WELL HOW COME YOU'RE ALWAYS TOXIC WITH ME?!

OHOHOHOHOHO I’M TOXIC?! HOW ABO- 

-AND LET'S TALK ABOUT THE TIME YOU CHEATED WITH THAT DY-

*releases the deepest sigh you have ever heard*

right on cue 

this happens every few months

and it seems something out of a tv show

two people have a fight that lasts at least two episodes and then they miraculously never fight again  

but in this case it gets louder and extremer after the last time at first the bubble is small

but as time races on getting bigger and bigger 

one day it goes POP!

and all hell breaks loose what do you mean last time? how many ‘last times’ have there been? which last time is it?

i don’t know or care

for every time it happens

the little eight year old girl cries with no one to console her 

the young boy with mental health issues isolates himself in the closet

while the adults scream their heads off laughing and screaming at each other thinking he or she is succeeding in the argument

when in reality they are not

and then there’s him

the guy who wrote this poem

his heart pounding 

his open face hands with their pinkies side by side praying to God that this all ends soon

who tucks the photobooth picture of he and his lover in his sweatpants

she kissing his left cheek 

he with his arm around her waist

both with their happy smiles back when things were great

how he would love to sneak out with her tonight

but to do so with his precious home practically on fire?

unfortunately goddamn impossible 

even though he can’t do anything but breathe in and breathe out hoping for the best

for there are no winners or losers in this game

only victims