Less Than Strangers

I gave you the world and you gave me a rock.

Little did I know why you gave me an insolent article of earthly waste.

If I gave you the chance, you would have rattled on about how rocks were a symbol of love,

A symbol of eternal commitment to penguins,

That penguins would only give a rock to whomever they wanted to spend eternity with,

That your eternity was with me.

But I turned away and tossed the rock before you could.

And in my prideful rage, I never heard your story.

That you couldn’t possibly find a better to way to say you loved me.

And now, we are less than strangers.

Not because I turned you away, but because you dared to love me.

But this didn’t shatter me.

My heart truly broke when I realized what I had done to you.

That was when I stopped loving myself.

That was when I lost the rock that the world gave to me.

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