This Poem was Submitted By: Gene Dixon On Date: 2001-02-19 17:43:15 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Geoffrey and Margot, After the Breakup

On second thought, he should have brought some wine and cheese. But he showed up, instead, with a loaf of fresh baked bread, some cold cuts and a box of fading memories. There wasn't anything to drink just water from that rust-stained sink. He would have liked some tea but she ran out just yesterday. So he squeezed a withered lemon slice and wondered if the awful price was something that he honestly could ever hope to pay. Ah, the years they were together... (Talk about your, "Stormy Weather!") There were ups and downs and arguments...The kind most people have. But the roads were getting much too steep and the wounds were getting much too deep to be healed by any ordinary, antiseptic salve. He knew it wasn't meant to last. She ran her life so goddamned fast. He had trouble keeping up with her just getting into bed. She was like a lonely rose, thorns disguised in perfumed prose. Holding on just left him with his fingers freshly bled. So he finally broke it off, announcing with a nervous cough, that he'd rented an apartment on the other side of town. There was sadness in her eyes that somewhat softened her replies though she stung his ears with one last taunt, "You'll never live this down!" But like a knitted sleeve's unraveling, Love's tether seems an endless string, so he'd look for vagrant reasons to make that crosstown ride. He'd find her scarf among his things. He'd hear a song they used to sing and so he'd go, they'd share some bread and all the truths they used to hide.

Copyright © February 2001 Gene Dixon


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