Forgiving

"Lovely lady," you said, "can I buy you a little something?"


As you unbuttoned my dress and my naiveté


Cemented my feet in your ambiguity


And sun dried my emotional being

oh, that's what I thought


we both tempted the other side


bedposts were allies


when no one lay by our side


chat with the wall


oh, never feel the world


never give in to anything


never again be a self

"long hair boy," I said, "can I make you smile for a night?"


as I rubbed nail shiver in thighs


filled in my own personal paint by number


who are these new bystanders

oh, that's what I thought


ass kissed our way away from reality


supper dishes spoke the truth


because we had nothing else to say


look past your eyes


into a fantasy world


gave up too much for this thing


where we were ourselves