Toxic Ties Remain

A poem

K. A. Bennett
Nov 4 · 1 min read
Photo by R. Martinez on Unsplash

This thing we have is toxic —
toxicity interwoven with shards of futile hope.

We play at the past like nothing ever changed.
I divorced you not so long ago, remember?

That should give me some autonomy
but it never does when you come around

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K. A. Bennett

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a poet and artist, mother, nature-seeking lover of the profound in the mundane

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