By Cosette
Date: 14 June 1999

Fact

remember when i wrote a tribute for poets
i have you more in mind than them 
that yes, after so many years 
i felt like writing happy tuned verses again 
don’t you know you made me feel more beautiful and smarter
than Aphrodite and Athena combined 
made me believe how realistic it is to grasp the stars
like pebbles and sand caught by my feet on the ground 
don’t you know it hurts to read your old poems 
inspired by love i wish i had back then
then maybe
just maybe
i won’t have to wait til i’m twenty three
when i’d been battered since sixteen
the poems and songs you wrote inspired by hurt 
i listened to your stories
as if reciting mine
these bitches had hurt you
i wonder why did they ever let you go
how i felt bad not being around back then 
when questions began nagging your mind 
about how unfair love and fate could be to you 
how elated i am that 
for once i made a difference in a man’s life (i haven’t) 
but now your rhymes wound me 
as if to stab me unseemingly
how could you do this 
after my sincere and appreciative compliment for a friend 
please tell me what the fact is this all about?