By Crystal
Date: 2002 May 09
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Egocentric

You sat there quietly,
staring at me,
watching tears stream down my face,
      one by one...
until at last a flood,
before I could even look you in the eyes and speak.
  
    You sat there and listened as I poured my words over you like syrup and lit cigarette after cigarette.

You watched as I opened my mouth trying to catch a breath, while the pain clutched the depth of my soul,
squeezing it tightly, extracting it out of my body,
leaving a corpse.

You never reached out for me once,
although I could see in  your eyes you wanted to.
                 Still...
               across the smokey room,
               perched in your recliner in disbelief,
               You just sat calmly,
                       motionless...
                      scrutinizing!
         Then finally a tear rolled down your cheek.