Unforgettable Poem by Sara Militello

Unforgettable

Unforgettable.
That's what you are.
Yet I left your side
fled the fatality of your charm

Ran and hid away from harm.
A side of you lay in wait
the real game in a scheme
you might've thought properly ornate.

Demanding total surrender
your words of love became a slur
your kisses became fists
leaving no safe way to resist.

When you held me near
It wasn't ‘cause you held me dear.
When you said 'you're perfect for me
It was when I was least right for me.

It wasn't really me you saw
wasn't me you thought you knew.
I'm the one who chose to go
to leave while still aglow...

December 8,1991