My anger for you runs very deep 
 and i struggle to contain it's firely heat,  
I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!  
 i do not think my love for you was ever true,  
and if it was, well i just don't remember 
 Because my heart, for you, burns with this anger. 
 
Although you are - or were - my lover 
 that does not mean we are very close, to each other. 
and although i still live under the same roof as you,  
 Does not mean we are not through. 
 
But how i am really feeling, you do not know,  
 i want to pack up, and go,  
really just spread my wings, and fly,  
 leave you and everything - and not say goodbye. 
 
But for unknown reasons, i still stay,  
  even 'tho it is getting harder to live this way, everyday,  
And i do not know why, i keep this facading lie - 
   of pretending everything is fine - when it is really not. 
 
03/09/99
Liz Munro
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pretending-that-everything-is-fine-when-it-is-re/