By Ali
Date: 2007 Oct 04
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[[2007.10.04.08.47.19081]]

Breaking Down

If it comes down to it,
and it all washes away
like the baby with the bath water,
like these ragged reasons
over a cracking telephone line--
if it breaks down, breaking down
everything I chose to believe
(and believe in),
she'll say it,
I know it--
and it'll be the last thing
I need,
the last thing I'll want,
wrapped in something like sympathy,
shrouded in a chaotic kindness
she'll say "I told you so,"
even if she doesn't speak it:

and that'll be the thing
that undermines
my already-breaking heart.