Part of the legacy you leave

Is the astounding fact

That you walked me up a mountain

And then pushed me from the cliff.

You struck just when I thought

I was finally safe with you

Past the worst of the climb

And on my way downhill.

I didn’t know you had a faster route

A free fall into the unknown

Because you could no longer

Stand my presence.

It makes me wonder why

You walked up the mountain at all

Why not let me climb alone

In hopes that I would make a jump?

I had thought the whole the climb

You might be merely apathetic

And it wounds me now to think

I was wrong. You’re just cruel.