Impotent

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Tributes to Lovers

You can't get it up for me;

it hurts me to my core

because it feels personal. 

 

All my body insecurities 

like how my tummy is not flat

make me feel undesirable.

 

Your impotency was as much

my fault as it was yours,

I left you without confidence.

 

You resigned yourself

to not making me happy

and we spent time idling. 

 

We continued co-existing,

going through the motions, 

falling out of love daily. 

 

I started looking elsewhere

to fulfill my needs

and you caught me red-handed.

 

You thought I stopped,

but I just got better 

at hiding what I did.

 

I always blamed you 

for driving me to cheat,

but my hand was on the wheel.

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