14 Reasons I called Off The Engagement

1. Twice

I cheated on you

And it is bad

To settle with someone

Who does not inspire in you

loyalty

2. I am not tired

of the market

I still carry around

My shopping basket

3.The room you made for me

was too small

I am too tall

For the bed

You laid for me

4.I dreamt I slept on that bed

my bones fractured

for want of stretching

And I woke to

my body washed

in pain

5.I am tired

tired of ampling

and smiling

6. Eight times my friends asked

if we were seeing

seven times I denied

7. I am no more consumed

by the myth of scarcity;

by the myth of patching and making do

8.You hold me like a trophy

Like a prize;

an accessory

another green bottle

in the hands 

of a drunken man

9. Your mother's shoes

are too old 

for me to fill

10. I am not the 'also' personality

I am not the 'tag along'

I am not the one 

Hoping to fill another's shoes

11.It's not me you really love

I only arrived

At the time

You had set to settle down

12. I followed you

because you pursued

pursuance is poor yardstick for love

dogs too pursue

to bite afterwards

13. I am not yet mature 

to the concept

of "one and only"

14.Your life is too planned

and I am an artist.