My Poetry: Goodbye

Goodbye

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I saw stars,
when the news arrived,
a sucker punch

disguised in
bitter words

rained down

like glass.

Tossed aside
like yesterday’s news

fish wrap,

hooked then left gasping

for air.
Years of toil and loyalty
lost to this

last fairly well
but girl please leave

knowing the bad
outnumbered the good
in so many ways.

And know
the sadness
which leaves
stains on my shirt
is not rejection
nor humiliation
or the hypocrisy,
of they way you acted
but for me
and those wasted years.