This Gray, Unfortunate Place (2)

20 - Projecting

Exhausted 

of learning lessons 

with friendships,

because when will it 

be my turn 

to be the one 

who a person regrets

having messed with?

Yes, this is self-centered, but 

I never liked the way 

your step-dad took my place.

I was emotionally scattered

and fogged in the brain,

only for me to seek your sympathy 

and for you to kick me out of your place. 

I've been in a lonely road, now

for quite some time, somehow-

Well, not 'somehow',

it's pretty easy 

to see how me,

myself, and I 

wound up on the corner of a highway

with no place to call home

inside the mind of broken bones

and dry appetites. 

Oh, how I miss it when you saw something high 

in me,

but were you just really

projecting?