Heart Failure (A Poem)

Heart Failure:
I listen to you speak.
I watch as you hurt me.
Each of your words cut deeper and deeper into my heart.
I watch as each word curve their place into my heart.
There they will forever stay...as scars.
Yet this organ still beats for you.
Why do I stay...?
Why do I let you hurt me?
I am what I am, and what I am is not what you want.
I will never be what you want.
I am insignificant to you.
Replaceable.
Internally I feel like a hollow shell.
I cannot continue this fight.
I cannot continue to listen only to speak and be ignored.
What am I to you?
Your love?
Your convenience?
No more apologies.
No more "explanations".
My heart is failing.
It cannot continue to fight for you.