You swore to me you wanted to settle down

Yet I spent a lot of time unsettled

Searching high and low

Recounting interactions, conversations,

Slight changes, butterfly effects

That could have caused you to disappear

So frequently

Consistently

Without reasonable cause.

You alluded to prospects. Potential

But I found myself

Having to climb and crawl

High and low

For a silver lining, a light at the end of a tunnel

I told you plainly I wanted a friend

Before a lover

So you left me unloved

And betrayed

Added questions and sentences

Restraining orders and death penalties

To lifelong friendships.

Stability

So you kept me on my toes

I assured you i’m an expert

In seeing unripe lemons in lemonade

So you squeezed the zest out of me

And left me with bitterness.

But also seeds.

Thus and therefore

I’m not surprised I ended up with bruises

Your emotional punching bag

When you told me you wanted a wife.