OR SO I THOUGHT

Stranger.

I can't look at you

Not yet anyway.

It's too painful.

I...I just can't look at you.

It would remind me of then, if I did.

The last time I turned to you,

Only to be turned out.

The man I knew and loved would never do that.

Or so I thought.

He wouldn't give me a cold shoulder

When I needed a warm heart.

Or so I thought.

But maybe now, looking back,

I didn't ever know you.

(3-27-2001)

(rev. 8-17-2001)