How did we end up here?

I haven’t noticed this wall being built

Out of bricks of frustration

And windows of unfulfilled visions

Of the future that could have been.  

Silence is heavy

And it lingers like toxic fog.

Seems to have settled for ever

After a torrent of my tears

And the thunder of angry words you spoke.  

Don’t say another word,

They have hurt me enough.

They shatter me, because it’s obvious

That even after all these years,

I still haven’t earned your trust.  

And I stay silent,

Because, I’m slowly giving up.

I could try to explain a million ways,

Still wouldn’t be enough.

This just might be bigger than us.  

Part of me thinks,

You don’t even care enough,

To try to understand.

You are just incapable or unwilling

To think with my head.  

The unspoken narrative

Keeps running wild in my mind.

A million words for hating you, 

Because you’ve accused me of things,

I would never do.  

But I look at you,

The storm has settled in your eyes.

Instead of spitting venom

I curve my lips into a smile.  

“Do you still love me?" you ask.

And it ends like it always does;

With a kiss and a hug,

Hate turning into love.     

The angry waves now settled,

As we realise,

We are just victims,

Tangled up in the web of vicious circumstances.