invaded my life in every unbearable way,

beyond tapeworm and cavities

beyond broken hands and migraines

 

you were a part of me

and you shouldn’t have been

 

i loved you without realizing

lived with you without realizing

and suffered before realizing 

 

now i struggle to sit across from you

at poker, at Cheddar’s, my mom’s house

but there you stay

 

so here i stay