I Don't Need You
October 2011 (10th Grade)

I don't need you.
I've known it for months,
but finally I'm whole enough to say
I don't need you.
Lashes flutter like butterfly wings.
Free from the weight
produced by tear ducts.
My skin is glowing from the fact that
I don't need you.
Though you haunt my dreams,
and my pencil constantly writes of you,
your presence is not needed here.
You are not wanted,
and I don't need you.
I used to think
Life ceased to go on
all because I needed you.
I fell.
You let me down.
I don't need you
now.
So this is Love?
Take it back.
I don't deserve this.
I don't want to be treated like this.
And,
I don't need you.