No tears

We died quietly

Without questions nor regrets   

And the day felt incomplete somehow

But I didn’t cry

We traded our love

For a peculiar hollowness

Only felt when there was time to get nostalgic

Or when the clock brought the darkness

and still I couldn’t cry

You blamed it on my bipolar

Or was it my selfishness

Or the ever-present wall

My lack of faith in love you said

And now I need to remember who I was

Before your words changed me

So I took another breath

that gave birth to another day

In which I was too scared to die

and too tired to live.

So I carried on

Robotic

Trying not to feel

Until I became exactly what you said I was

Cold, bitter, unapproachable

And still unable to cry