Elizabeth Tyease Collins - Cheat

After what you did to me
you expected me to stay?
You think that toying with
my heart will get you far,
that my heart was a coat to
put on only when you needed it?

You played with a heart that was too
strong for you to handle,
my heart has been through hell
and war to get where I am,
and you think that my strong willing
would stoop me so low?

Do you actually think that I didn't
hear the phone calls late at night with
her,
when you claimed during the day that
you were 'working' but when I followed
you were kissing her at her door?
Do you play me for a fool?
I must be,
and if I am,
why am I crying?

I had to do something to end the pain,
this is the worst pain I've ever felt,
and it was my heart playing your stupid
game,
I had to do something to relieve the tension,
to show that I'm tougher than you are,
I sank my words truthfully into your skin
and watched responses bustle throughout your
ribs,
you played with a heart that's hurt too much
so why not eliminate the
heart that no one cares for?

Elizabeth Tyease Collins

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