Your hard, cold eyes stared
across the expanse of a couple of states.
This I knew to be a mistake.
You see, I never really cared.

I was so very young and dumb,
lost somewhere in the balance.
My time here had just not come.
This feigned love held no challenge.

06/09/1985

Author's Note: ... old angst...

Posted on 01/03/2013
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