Just for once, keep it out -
I’d like to see it
You think I’m terrible, I don’t doubt
But it’s from you I want to know this
And standing here
In the pouring rain
You’re more cruelly beautiful
Than I could have ever been.
Thinking we would be easy -
That was my mistake.
But please don’t think the same of me
And what you’d planned to take,
My heart, my self and all that lies between
The empty pavement
Separating me from you,
If I promise not to make a scene.
“Will you do me a three-month favor
And pretend the puddles are a million people…”
I want to whisper this to you
Through the tears the sky and I weep --
“Audiences like happy endings.”
©Jenni Davenport