Sadness lingers around me

I tell him to go away but he slaps hard

I remember being happy on the swings with glee

Now it all seems distant as he tells me to die

In the playground we went “wee” around the swings

But sadness hit me hard and I had mood swings

Butterflies in my stomach churned and churned till they died

My ride or die took a flight and I thought to fight

He told I’d be better off dead

But I thought it was a joke-

Never saw my eyes so red

On the millionth taunt I broke-

Broke into fistful tears

I had thought everything was far and never near

An arrow or a bullet seared through my heart

Broke it, tore it, shattered it into million pieces

Funny how I thought sadness would never hurt me

Funny how sadness would never slap me

Funny how my saviour soon turned his back on me

I’ll never look the same way at him the way I did

His slap still hurts me while my cheek is numb as tears slid