Priscilla's poem is about a relationship where one person's love is met with dismissal. It begins lightly: the speaker says they're leaving for a little while, and their partner's clingy reaction feels sweet. Soon it turns painful. The fights multiply, the speaker takes the blame for all of them, and each apology gets thrown away "like it was garbage."
The word "garbage" returns again and again, changing as it goes. First it describes the apologies, then the speaker's feelings and effort, and finally the speaker themselves. The ending flips it: the partner may see those fights as trash, but the speaker holds every one of them as "my everything."
The mood is raw, hurt, and quietly stubborn. The plain, repetitive language sounds like someone replaying the same memories at night. The speaker says they forgave, but admits they only pretended to, and that gives the poem its ache.