all of my life
well for as long as I am permitted to be around
I'll always remember you standing there in the cold
and darkness with such a bleak and bulky frown
now I look back and can only guess with a certain
amount of fear
that of my emotional betrayal you have been bound
to hear
isn't it simply true how we hurt the ones so near and
dear
I can see my error now just like I did wrong by you
murderous memories don't always fade like we're told
but sharpen to the point of being pointedly clear
who was it that said, 'Death can seem so dear to he who
only has the guts to challenge his false cheer
so he won't seem so much the idiot he'd like not to
appear.......................
( written Jan 16,1992 pm)