Leave Me Alone

Leave me alone. I never laughed at you,
I never stole and ate your damn dessert,
I never tugged your hair or tore your shirt,
I never smeared your running shoes with glue,
And always left your pile of books askew
The way you liked it. You were never hurt
The way you injured me, artful and pert,
When I confided what I wanted, too.

So no, we're not the same. I'm really nice
And you are hateful, as our dark shared pasts
Will demonstrate. We weren't iconoclasts,
Just youngsters, thoughtless and deaf to advice.
I never slipped a sharpened piece of ice
Down your neck. And this feeling lasts and lasts.