By Ali
Date: 2007 Sep 20
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[[2007.09.20.23.30.11185]]

Goodbye

honey,
you don't really know me--
that I'm five by five
even in crisis, red heels
to match a red smile,
always ready to offer lips
in prayer and sin,
but, baby--not to you.

honey,
you play pretty, but it's just pretend,
and you're fishing for a reason,
stealing a tarnished treason
because you can't even afford
the real thing--
and I don't stoop so low
as to be anybody's lonely moment,
or casual sensual surrender.

honey,
you don't really know me,
and you've never really seen my face,
not in the ways that matter--
the trouble is, I don't think you can
see beyond it,
beyond the sway of my smile,
beyond these secret moments
you use to pass through
one lonely night or another,
and there's nothing left of me
for you--just this strangely
one-sided past, a naive
streak in my smarter-than-you
intelligence.  you were
a flaw in my shadow,
a glitch in my good armor,
a weakness I suffered
when I was breaking, or broken.

but the truth is, baby--
you were never worth my time.