Bridges.

Hey you...

Shit, it's been a while now

How have you been?

We haven't talked in several years

Fuck, we used to be friends...

And...

I remember how that night felt

The night it would end.

I know I said a couple of words that I can never resend. 

That I can never unbreak,

That I can never unbend.

We knew each other for some decades

Didn't matter back when

I had to send that text

The one that changed what happened next 

A couple dozen words that were the noose that hung around our necks

And...

I couldn't keep it up,

The hollowed smiles and wary jest.

The constant comparison to the one that you had deemed the best.

And...

I wonder if you ever told him that y'all both had sex?

And...

I find it a little ironic that he never stopped to check...

And...

I heard it didn't last, at least you get to dodge the rest,

Especially if he would have went and sought a paternity test. 

sheesh.

I see you went and tended to the little stains 

On your teeth.

I hope it boost you up

I know sometimes you felt so beneath.

I hope the best for your offspring

I don't know what he bequeathed

To them genetically 

But hopefully its not what he seeks.

I guess this was much more of a one-sided kind of talk

You probably have nothing for me left but scolds and shouts and balks. 

I don't really appreciate the pages that you stalked,

You never gave it a glance beyond the fancy things he bought. 

But the thing that I came to realize 

Is bridges can be burned.

I got over all of the sugared lies 

And waiting for my turn.

And walking away is harder 

But fuck it, I quickly learned

That doing it for yourself if hard but I need to be stern.