It's Still Life

(An Untitled Anti-Love Poem)

There are times,
when her voice grates,
the way she speaks too true,
to bruise,
to lose her burdens on another,
and no thought for someone’s time.
Today I speedily walked on by.

AprPAD Day 17 Write a love and anti-love poem. This is fiction; I don’t know anyone fitting this description, happily.

It’s National Poetry Writing Month, which explains the surge in activity. I’m following three different sites generating daily prompts. Writers’ Digest Poetic Asides, the National Poetry Writing Month website (NaPoWriMo). All of these pieces are drafts.