last night
i saw her once again
haunting my dreams
so i explained
gently to her
her constant
excuses and
shifting of blame
in the real world
meant i didn’t need
to see her in dream
she hurt me
through neglect
then pretended she
was innocent as always
and now i long for
sweet dreams untarnished
by her inability to
ever accept responsibility
for her own actions

the casual cruelty
conveyed in consistently
disavowing oneself
from the craters left
in crude abandonments
is her calling card
a signature move
written in invisble ink
so she can pretend she
was never really there
and her words were
never truly uttered