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Mean (Pint-Sized Poem #23)
I love you.
You know that?
Of course you do.
It's just that sometimes...
My love.
My penguin.
Sometimes, you just forget who I am.
You forget the way you're suppose to treat me.
Talk to me.
Act around me.
I never will ask you to change.
Because I know who the real you is (at least I hope I do).
It's just sometimes, the facade.
The shell that you put up in public,
your deadly sin that follows you around
like a dark cloud over your head.
Your pride.
And yes love, I gave you so much to be proud of.
It's just that it's not the self-steem pride that I help you gain.
It's the old pride that you would show,
the one when you act like you're more superior than me.
Or anyone.
Sometimes it's cute.
Sometimes it's funny.
But sometimes it's just...
Mean.
And sometimes you're mean.
And I don't know which is worse.
Me admitting it, to you and myself.
Or you actually being it.
I'm sorry...
I just thought you should know.
What you do to me.
You know that?
Of course you do.
It's just that sometimes...
My love.
My penguin.
Sometimes, you just forget who I am.
You forget the way you're suppose to treat me.
Talk to me.
Act around me.
I never will ask you to change.
Because I know who the real you is (at least I hope I do).
It's just sometimes, the facade.
The shell that you put up in public,
your deadly sin that follows you around
like a dark cloud over your head.
Your pride.
And yes love, I gave you so much to be proud of.
It's just that it's not the self-steem pride that I help you gain.
It's the old pride that you would show,
the one when you act like you're more superior than me.
Or anyone.
Sometimes it's cute.
Sometimes it's funny.
But sometimes it's just...
Mean.
And sometimes you're mean.
And I don't know which is worse.
Me admitting it, to you and myself.
Or you actually being it.
I'm sorry...
I just thought you should know.
What you do to me.
Published 11th Apr 2012
| Edited 15th Sep 2017
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