So Easy To Forget
I commend you, my ethereal love:
you’ve forgotten me so well
My name was written with invisible ink
on your heart
Erase ... evaporate
Our love was steamy mist on the bathroom mirror,
and you took a dry toweled tear and wiped it away
I ask you, were we so easy to forget?
For me, it was hard to remember
just why we split
Something or another about this and that
Having a dinner conversation,
you were casting aspersions,
saying a real man don’t treat a woman like crap
But, if I recall correctly,
it was your friend and her fella you were talking about
When it came to us,
we always labored hard to try and work things out
But we got lax,
too comfortable with our facial familiarity
I took your love for granted,
and you did the same with me
We let the little bothersome things slide,
we let the small cracks grow wide
Now, we’re no longer together,
and I really don’t know exactly why
Or what truly caused the divide
With sorrowful parting,
I ask myself why ... why ... why did our love die?!
As it takes everything within me
to stifle my muffled manly cries
It hurt me to see
there wasn’t the slightest glint of regret
gleaming in your eyes
Yet, I must praise you, my astral love
For you, it was so easy to forget
to give us another try
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2017
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