bender

you can only bend something
back and forth so much
before it snaps,
is what I always say.

he bent me a bit much this day...
and it's not so much that I snapped
rather than it was the realization that I'm
perhaps just a figment of his imagination
that means little in reality to him.

because actions are louder than words
i always have said as well.
if you truly care about someone
you don't push them out and away.
especially not after you've wrapped your loving words
securely around them for miles beforehand...
giving them a false sense of comfort which leads them towards you.
just for them to arrive and see that no one is home.