so i knew today you said you were going, I thought maybe you'd squirrel it away like most things. Then she called to talk to the cub, and your voice came over the phone. I immediately slammed down on the sting that rose like bile in the back of the throat. I can't be jealous of her, I won't let myself. She's a part of your past, present, and future; she has every right to be somewhere in your life. But the selfish part of me wants her to kick rocks as much as you want mine to kick rocks. I miss you, not but days past and it feels like weeks. Then I heard she might be going with Sunday, and the bile rose again. Forced to the hide, again, the emotions I struggle to keep suppressed the rest of the week, those which i can only openly show around those who barely know me, and support what we share anyway. I am open to understanding, but this pang of jealousy is dangerous in me, unpredictable, erratic, and a completely new aspect of my personality that I'm not sure i can control. I don't want to be jealous, specially not of her, but here I am.
my kids think I dont put them first
If they only knew... if I were selfish, I'd have left them here with E years ago, without a word.. before the eldest moved out on their own, I'd have left. I'd have left when E left the first bruise (accidentally, though it was) on their arm while restraining them to punish them for something I can't even remember today. I'd have left E the day he accidentally choked my youngest, who was only trying to protect they're elder sibling from the wrath they felt sure they saw in his eyes after learning the middle had self-harmed. Blaming me for not checking on them, when the greater harm had been to the middle and I was checking on them! Protecting the middle from what I saw was the greater threat, E. But I stay here! To protect their ungrateful asses from the man I said vows to, though every second of every day I regret it deeper and deeper in my heart. My kids don't think I put them first when I find solace of any kind in the proximity of O - but they...have......
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