the words flew past and I wasn't sure at first I was hearing right
or understood,
I listened again in my mind just to be sure
and I wasn't mistaken,
I'd heard it right
and my heart broke apart all over again...

what changed your mind, if anything?
or was this simply some pathetic charade,
some self-serving emotional dish
and I ate it up, believing again ...

'we live here inside today'
'yesterday is gone and long forgotten'

you were so grateful I was here
'no one else could take care of you like I can'
that's what you told me
and that's what I clung to
until today
when the truth could no longer hide inside
and burned right through my aching heart
before it fell and died
right on that kitchen floor
nothing's changed ...

what a fool I was!
to think I could walk backwards facing yesterday...

04/27/2007

Posted on 04/27/2007
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