Petty Words

You say you do it because you love me,

You say I am under your care 

But I laugh - a sarcastic, humourless, crazed laugh 

Because you'd already given up

I know; I was there

The petty words you said

That weary surrender

Along with hope died

Your right to say those words

I'd never though I'd see the day

When home I can't go thither anymore

I may or may not expand this poem in the near or distant future.