i've left pieces of me behind
but never really knew until
he called and told me he found
a string of my hair in his bed
perhaps i have left other strands
in other beds other times
but his was a little more fitting
a little less regretful
and to think of all the empty
beer bottles
cigarette butts
words
that i've left strewn about
carelessly
recklessly
they expect me to be ashamed
i should be ashamed
shame on me
but
these things are only fragments left behind
all i really had to offer ifyouwill

no real loss to me
no real loss
it's the things they can't see
they can't clean up
the real parts
that are more of a loss to me

04/27/2002

Posted on 04/27/2002
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