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Conversation I
Your pity makes naught a difference, your ‘woe’.
Sadistic you watch them, keep your rotgut.
Empathetic lack incenses me. But,
an attractive threat, transparently so.
Your thrall is apparent: all I can do-
‘I’m sorry’ you simper, saccharine sweet
Its okay, but please no more hits to greet
Just want this with you, no black nor the blue
Scarlet, azul on a beat-up paintbrush.
Paint me new unbroken lines or maybe
don’t. Don’t paint them. Please don't draw me new veins
A new place you cut through. Cerise would rush,
flush all of my tears and fears and- Baby,
Would you want that? ‘Stead of in your chains?
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This sonnet is a combination of my emotions regarding my father and regarding my ex. There's a lot of overlap there, and the contrasts were interesting to use in the poem. It's a plea to let go, and a diatribe with the behaviors the speaker has suffered.
This is the first part of a two poem piece, where the speakers are having a conversation. This speaker is the battered or 'unproblematic' partner, while the other is abusive or 'problematic'.