Scott Simpson · Poetry

You Fit Into Me

Use For Kindling · source pages 79

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You Fit Into Me

Like a fishhook, like a trap

disguised as love. You fit into me—

not the way a story fits a child’s

ear, but the way pain coils into quiet.

I trusted you, and now the wind

makes me flinch. It wasn’t just

what you did. It’s what kind of person

does that?

And I keep asking—

what kind of person

stays?