I need to start properly
Punctuating my sentences.
With periods.
No more commas and conjunctions
That string nouns with verbs
Ending with explanations and justifications
Or apologizing my way through life.
Just a plain and simple
No.
Or yes.
Or even
I'm. Just. Done.
Done taking up for you,
Making excuses for you,
Expending too much of me in the process.
This. Will. Now. End.
With a period.
Or maybe even an exclamation point.
“Hell no” might even be in order,
Even if it offends your fragility
And you fool heartedly use your waning power over me
To beg for one semicolon;
Where you gravely attempt to erase my period.
I matter.
My tired matters.
My heart matters.
That pain from your need to run me,
Own me,
Tell me when,
and how,
and why,
I should be something other than
What my heart tells me.
Until I'm drained,
And pained,
And pleasing you’d out.
It all ends with this. Period.
