Winter Abandon
Has the time all been wasted?
The JURY is out.
But I think that my friends all AGREE
You can only FIGHT so much
For love
Before you realize
The GAME was rigged.
Do I still want you?
I think I just want PEACE.
It's almost an INSULT
To consider this love.
It's always your INSTINCT to RUN
A trapped animal
And I was your cage.
You BROUGHT me daisies
In summertime sweet
But they never could last
In this DROUGHT.
Do the OPPOSITE of your promises.
BRAVO, I believe you each time.
There's always a TEST
That I'm never quite acing.
Though I've danced on the WIND
For your time
Always too busy
I'm always too needy
So easily tossed to the side.
Used GARBAGE.
That's us.
I imagined us an ELEGANT wonder
Sophisticated as you once seemed.
It started innocent
Just KISSING
OUTSIDE in the courtyard
Of that BEACH side bar
Hot sun and warm bodies
And no thinking.
I think the thinking did us in
Or maybe it was the cold.
We're just a dead TREE with lost leaves
Once vibrant and green in the summertime flush
We're left now to this winter abandon.