Pop Poetry: Hunched Back
April 7, 2021
It is hard to not hate you
You are stubborn and callous
You’d subdue your opponents with guns and call them powerless
But you are not infantry one anymore
You are an old man who can no longer stand up without help
Oh Wounded you are no longer a warrior
I do not respect you
Because your sense of falleness mixed with your pride
Is the reason that she had to die at that time
I blame you for her death and though you had caused others this is the one I’m unable to forgive you for
She was yours and you were hers and she died because you were sad your voice wasn’t being heard
She died slowly and painfully right next to you as spring had just sprung before May or June
She was old too
She was like you
The only difference is her heart was kind and yours is black from the fires you used to burn down towns in war
Your world has outgrown you
And how dare you cry for her
How dare you look at me and poke fun at my appearance when you don’t even deserve half a sentence from me
You killed her
You are the reason she had a hunch in her back
Her broken arm too weak to hold you up anymore crumbled below you
And she died of something completely preventable because you whined and cried saying how you didn’t feel good
She was dying
Right in front of you
And now you cry for belittling her when you know she’d always put you first
Oh selfish war man
I thought you had lost your hearing not your sight
How could you have not seen the way all of us cried
How I stayed in bed for weeks
How I cried a hundred times only for you to weep for something you caused
I hate that I want you to die
I hate that life would be better if you were on the other side
That I would love to outlive you
And watch as you got to be put in the ground and rot
Unlike her
Who had to be cremated because we didn’t have a choice
She was poisoned by your lies and they knew it was contagious
I blame you
The wounded,
The powerless,
The leech that had sucked out her life,
I was taught not to hate,
but in my lesssons was no one as selfish as you,
I blame you