by Gail Kismet

Created on: February 17, 2007   Last Updated: May 14, 2007

Bitter Beauty

I felt so numb once, to this life that I know.
I was strong, and wrong, and I set my sights low.
My heart was behind a wall that came down too soon.
Now my path to redemption hums a lonely tune.

Yours was the schedule I lived by. Intoxication.
The things I told myself. Lies. Infatuation.
I thought I could love. I thought I could trust.
I could only like, and I could only lust.

The stars are still there, they hang like a curse.
I've had a longer relationship with my purse.
You don't understand there's nothing to toast.
But I do understand, and that's what hurts the most.

Six days gone by without trying to speak.
Silence is strong, but I feel so meek.
What happened to my summer friend since the fall?
Was I so stupid to think that you'd actually call?

I'm not going to ask why, or be that girl.
I'm better than that, mine is the world.
Go, do your thing, and when you come back.
Stronger I will be, and my love you can't have.

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