By Galadrial
Date: 2002 May 28
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Questions After Midnight

Your timimg is remarkable,
I give you that,
waiting until I am mostly numb,
then asking me what I feel,
and even as i open my mouth
I am trying to feel something more
than cotton batting
where my heart used to beat
steady and true.
Do I love you.
My God.
You need more than a shell,
a hollow gourd,
and it is everything I can do
not to scream in your face
that you should have thought of that
BEFORE you gutted my heart,
You say you tried,
and mutter about ingratitude.
I think the Brits
would call that colassal cheek,
and you make it sound
like something I picked,
when for years I begged
not to be kept at arms length.
NOW you feel the cold,
NOW you feel rejected,
ignored,
simply nonesstential personnel
wondering if the next pink slip
will have your name on it.
Now the playing field is level,
and there is no hope left in your eyes,
but you ask me these questions
after midnight,
and never think to wonder
why you saved them
til after the witching hour of my soul.