Splinter

Hundreds of scraps of paper
Litter my floor because I can't decide what to think:

I don't know if I'm still in love,
Or this anger is me giving up completely

It's all I can do to not let you know
How far you got into my head;

I can't emphasize my bliss before
You told me it was all a lie
Straight to my face:

When you stood motionless, resolute, and calculated,

And shut us down in a few cutthroat sentences.

I knew better than to argue with you when
You had that look in your eyes.

Nodding slowly to your decisions

I retreated from the confrontation

Behind ornate walls of self-deception

You closed the door quietly behind you

And didn't even look back

And now I cant get this cursed splinter

Of you out of my head