Bad Poetry/It Is Bitterness Sally

Your actions are bad poetry
So I thought that I would write one
For you
.

Don't ask me to say I'm sorry
Don't wait on me to say I'm glad
I wanted to rescue you
And I wish that I had
.

Seven years since I left
I could not have stayed
I could not have saved the children
From your disgrace and your rage
And it makes me so sad
That you should be this way
Learning nothing from what we had
Or how we came to this place
.

It is bitterness, Sally
It eats into your soul
It buys comfort for the fire
And warmth for the mind
A place to find places
You thought you had left behind
It returns you to the horrors
You knew before we met
That place of self loathing and of regret
.

I wanted to be your friend, Sally
To raise our children as one
Mother and father beyond the end
For the sake of our daughters and our sons
But the bitterness has become habit
It is so hard for you to forgive
The betrayal you have invented
And the life you imagine we lived
.

That's the thing about booze
You can't remember it all
You forget the horrors that ooze
From the failed dreams we have pursued
.

It is bitterness, Sally
It eats into your soul
And now the only way I have to talk to you
Is as the poet that you loved
To remind you of the good things
And to tell you I forgive
But in bitterness, Sally, is no way to live
.