Yesterday, fifteen years ago,
a lifetime past,
I felt safe.
comfort embraced me as
a lover,
lulled me into stupidity
rocked me gently to sleep
and fluffed my heart to
full.
Yesterday, a thousand years ago,
love crept to my window sill
threw a leg over, turned, and
smugly called me fool for
believing.
Yesterday, ten years ago,
(I lied when I said a thousand)
love turned to gaze at me,
found me unworthy and
walked away, jingling pocket
change and stopped to check
it's teeth in the scrolled foyer
mirror.
Yesterday, ten (or so) years ago
love dug a filthy claw at my chest
pushed hard, and bled me out
chuckling at my forever naivete.
Yesterday, that obscene liar,
(love), commanded my tears to
stop, snaked a clever hand
into my pocket, picked it clean
casually crumpled my life, stuffed
it in a cool dude leather jacket,
settled into a big new shiny car
and sped away.
Yesterday, (so long ago) that hellspawn, love, put cat food on my table as it glided smoothly to Daddy's six million dollar mansion, telephoned me with tinny voice
so I could hear as my crumpled life tumbled
down the incinerator.
Yesterday, so long past, I believed in love.
Today? You need ask?
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