By Echolocation
Date: 16 January 2000

Magic Carpet Ride

I laid my heart out before you
unrolled it like an Oriental carpet
   -- complex, elegant, beautiful --
      with the right words it could fly
(or was it a doormat?)
gently you touched it...
   ...rolled it up...
      ...gave it back to me...
"No thank you"
   the coldest words on earth

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