Peace Is Best Poem by Mandy Baldwin

Leave me alone now, please.
No more midnight calls and murmured declarations
No more long, hand-holding talks as if we’ll share tomorrow.
Since there is silence after each
I’d rather there was silence all the time.
It was you who did the hunting when I put you out of mind
And these lines you’ll never read are all to tell you that you won.
Sleepless and daydreaming you still think I am detached
I’ll never be another notch on a very well-marked gun.
So leave me alone now, please.
Art I find much safer. And words are all my own.
They don't have moods and whims and tantrums.
And I simply have too much to do
To allow my heart to be broken by you.