Saturday

Merciless Ignorance


Merciless ignorance
just as simple as a walk away
as simple as innocence
with a little more moral decay

You amazing creature
once revealing,
now concealing
has it been that bad all along?

how you lie with a simple response
(there's nothing I love more
than getting close enough 
for lies)

lies?  oh no. . .
maybe you just picked up my trick
I warned you -
you persisted -
hurts, doesn't it?

how could I possibly say I don't need this?

you dream sleepily
you'll be here tomorrow
and the next day
and the next
I'll be gone tomorrow
and why console 
a lonely soul?

I'll move on to paradise
congratulations to yet another bad memory

I want to hate you, hate you
did I really do this to you?
what did I make you think?

SAY IT, GODDAMMIT
your silence is a lie

deep in the night
you're mercilessly innocent. . .
ignorant. . .

- April 18, 1987, A.D.