'Apathy' Poem by Marie Joyce B. Negapatan

Excuses and rants
The need to vent out
This air of doubt
A stinking smell
From my bitterness
It’s time to bury
This hatchet

A kiss to my pride
Is the devil’s delight
And burns my heart
With enduring desire
To watch you follow
The sunset
And left me lying
In the darkness

If I could just chase away
The thoughts
In your head
To make you comprehend
The things left unsaid
But only to find myself
Crossing the river
To evade this fear
Of waking up one morning
As the world revolves
Without me, without you
Beside me

As misery loves company
I have learned to live
With my own fantasies
But my tears keep on coming back
To the ghosts within my head
Yearning to feel the warmth again
Of the cold past
I’ve longed abandoned
But still wanting for more.