Thank you for showing me, I forgive you.

I sit in silence and I wait for you to bring up the video of your fifth birthday party so you can show me with a smile the 2000s kitschy borders the red-eyed blurry photos the effervescent candles on a cake I wait for the video to carry on and as it goes on I press lips tighter together til red lipstick turns white as I look at the dresses the tiaras glittering in the camera flash the dolls you hold up as presents the flower belt buckle of your shoes I sit in silence and I wait for it to be over. but it never ends.