'Don'T Have To Say, 'I Love You.' Poem by Linda Winchell

Don't have to say, 'I Love You.'
Don't have to take me out.
Don't need your arms around me now
If all you want to do is, scream and shout!

Don't need to bring me flowers
for flowers will not heal my aching heart.
You should have been what you claimed to be
you should have done it from the start.

You don't have to judge me
for something that I've love to do.
It doesn't have to be to your liking
of whatever, it isn't doing for you!

Your ranting only pushes me dear
further and further apart.
And sets knifes pain deeply
into my now, broken pain-filled heart!

I'm leaving you this letter
so that maybe you might see.
That words are how I share
what your anger has locked inside of me.

But you wouldn't listen to what I wrote
rather took time to, crab and moan!
And never took the time to listen
to the words my poems had formed.

Your loss is not mine my dear
for I will continue on to write.
And one day you might see these words
in a book store, in BIG BRIGHT LIGHTS!

'Top Seller of the year! '
'Works From The Heart! '
That's the title I gave to my book of poetry
The ones I tried to share with you from the start.