Guilt Reflected - Color Theory

Looking at the floor I declare

I can’t go on wasting all my time on you

Trying to ignore your despair

As tears splash down

Naming every flaw of yours

Like a grocery list

I never felt the way that you feel

I never knew my words could heal

Don’t have to look in your eyes to see

The guilt reflected in me

Hope you threw away that self-help book

I bought for you

Like I only wanted to help

Nothing was too small to overlook

I tried hard to

Concentrate on your mistakes

To conceal my own

Sorry to have been so obscene

Would you accept my sincere apologies?

Didn’t have to prove anything

It had to end

But with gentle words

Instead of a shouting match