Where once love seemed safe <br />(At least he saved my heart) <br />Through rejecting me <br />(His refusal was pure art) <br /> <br />He planned his escape <br />(And he carried out his part) <br />And lonely's my place <br />(But inside's a dreadful dark) <br /> <br />Now I'm the dusty refuse on the street <br />(though was done, with no ill will at all) <br />I should be accustomed to defeat <br />(But why should my own smallness make him tall?)<br /><br />Patti Masterman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-s-not-as-bad-as-it-seems/
