Easy Answers

you’ll never be just who i wanted you to be
you still don’t listen
but finally that’s all right with me
i won’t hold you any more
you’ll never know
why you’ve become just another closed and broken door
to me
and i’m sorry

i used to think good thoughts would someday come
they never have
and the punchline is over and too far gone
i’ll never take you to a movie
or to a show
another cold and lonely wind blows right through me
apart but not alone
and i’m sorry

what I wanted was care and not acknowledgement
you can’t give that
or all the things you said and might not have meant
I don’t want to be where you are
out in the cold
when we were loving your eyes were hungry cold far
away alone
and i’m sorry

I don’t do skeleton love
bare bones and broken jars
I’ve swept them up, neatly
and left them at the curb
for the garbageman
or the stars

# posted by new jack city @ 11:46 PM