Empty Tears

I dissected the hollow eyes
the empty tears you cried,
verbally apologizing, mentally strategizing
plotting your next course of action,
your arms seemingly ached to hold me,
those empty tears put in place a distraction
your words carefully chosen, I'm trying to
find a way to put together this person
you left broken. You...you're clever
intuitively cunning, break her just a little moe
before she takes off running. Everytime you take
pieces away she's weakened, no longer
that strong, self assured, confident person you used to know, maybe, that person was too much to handle, so you had to find a way to
slowly dismantle. Every bit of her strength,
edurance and confidence, maybe you loved her
under false pretense, did it stroke your ego
to watch her fall? Did it fuel your desire
to watch her become less than who she used
to be? That person you destroyed was me
yet here I am vowing to find that
strength again, rebuilding the rubble
your destruction left behind and thank
you because what you've done helped
me see there's someone stronger inside of
me whose unwilling to bend or fold
who isn't buying empty dreams being sold
i can't take less than what I
deserve so I've become deaf to
meaningless words, I've grown numb
to those apologizes see, I love you, but
more than that..... I LOVE ME