Never There For Me Poem by Britney Hogue

I hold these tears of mine back
You brought them like a waterfall
I hold them back with levees
Hopeless to be breech any moment
I’m breaking down on the inside
I was mad, so mad, but not now
No! no longer is anger the main emotion
Now hurt resides in its place

I thought you would be there for me
Walk me through my needs
As I have for you so many times
I thought that’s how friends were
But I can see that you don’t agree
I can only give so much without return
Without getting support as well
But as I see, I ask too much in you.

Don’t fret because ill be alright
Already others have seen my pain
They come to my rescue
Just like you should have done
The others make me smile and laugh
And soon I won’t even remember
The pain you caused me
Because you were not there for me.