ashweb poetry: TCW

TCW - Rebecca Steiger

'You don't know how
    many times I've heard this
        I better go'

His face stone-like from
years of training his reaction
to be second to his action

And as he drives back home
he recites his mantra
' ...such a bitch'

And the next day
' ...whats wrong with me'

I haven't cried like this
in years,
Yet it is lost
He will never know
how much I wanted to love him

If he would have only let me.

9-13-95