I have had too many

people in my life

Who seem to think time

passed is somehow

an apology,

None of them want to take

accountability for the ways

they hurt me;

One of the five girls who

bullied me out of our friend group

in high school, without warning

and reason, apologized to me—

I forgave her,

and suddenly they all seemed

to think all was forgotten;

One person apologizing out of five?

Getting one out of a five isn't

even a passing score,

But I suppose I'm supposed to let

the past stay in the past and be the

bigger person.

Well, unfortunately, I am a petty betty

and I got the memory of an elephant.