What Are You Doing?

What are you doing?
You know better than that.
You know better than to lose your temper
That’s what he wants you to do after all.

He’s just watching you throw more sticks on the fire
Laughing is the only thing that comes out of him
He ritually dances around your flame
Mocking your every word.
Mocking your very existence.

Don’t pay attention
Just turn around and walk away
In the near future
He won’t mean anything to you

There won’t be a thing that he can do that can allow him to creep under your skin
Not one section of his being will be part of you
If anything
He helped you grow

As different as you are from him
He made you more mature
You had another gift
You got to watch him fail

She was your sister
You helped her grow into the woman that she is today
He was just a tick waiting for her to get sick
There was nothing that he actually liked her for

Regret nothing
He’s now disintegrated into faint memories
You did the right thing to let go
You did the right thing to help her out