Time Out!A Poem by David Lewis PagetYou
said you needed personal space, You
said you needed to think, The
moment your lesbian friend called round I
said I needed a drink! So
I left you there in the Coffee Shop To
talk about women’s things, And
when I returned the following day You’d
taken off both your rings. Now
I might look dumb, and probably am, But
I’ve given you plenty of rope, So
now if you’re going to hang yourself I’ll
give up living in hope. Is
your life so empty and torpid That
my love is never enough, She
whispers things in your shell-like ear That
would make a man throw up. You
say we’re not going anywhere, That
what we have is a bore, You
said you needed to get away As
you pushed me out through the door, Then
I heard you’d gone to lie on a beach But
where, you wouldn’t say, Getting
a dose of sun and sea As
you planned for a life away. You
said you thought we were all washed up, But
you might come back, you might, Keeping
your options open while I
lay awake in the night, I
wondered why I was such a fool But
there, I’m only a man, And
silly me was in paradise Whenever
you held my hand. You
always seemed to be fretting then, You
needed to take Time Out, While
I spent time at the Take-Away With
a burger, and seeds of doubt, You’d
come back home and be laughing But
I knew that it wouldn’t last, A
day or two, you’d be gone again, Just
like you had in the past. And
that is the reason I’ve barred the door, To
get you out of my life, It’s
sad, for there was a time that I Had
thought to make you my wife. You
can’t come in, you can take Time Out For
the rest of your life on earth, For
me, I have me a new romance, Your lesbian got here first!
David Lewis Paget © 2013 David Lewis PagetFeatured Review
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