Saturday, June 22, 2024

I refuse to believe it Oct. 12, 2013

 I don’t believe it;

I refuse to believe it,

regardless of what

the Hometown blogs say,

maybe this is proof

that she’ll only go so far

 to honor her commitments

 to the clutch of characters

 she’s hooked up with,

perhaps,

 she even put her foot down,

 forcing those others

 to find someone else to do

 what she won’t do.

In this scummy world

full of scummy people,

she seems the least tainted,

desperate to fit in

when fitting in means

doing something beyond the pale

 of what she’s even done before,

even if the old woman on that cruise

 long ago taught her how,

doing for herself is different

 from doing for someone else,

so I refuse to believe,

 maybe I’m as blinded by the light

 as all the others who love her are,

seeing what I want

or need to see,

 rather than what is,

needing all this

not to be true

if only for my own sake.


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