Am I the Fool?

Am I the fool?

Am I the joke?

When all around do warn and curse

When you so cruel

And open choke

Neglected love sent home by hearse

An empty void

Your heart, black tarred

That poisons all that come too close

Emotions toyed

And passions scarred

All suffer from your deadly dose

You care not who

You cause such pain

As long as short term urges pleased

And here I to

Do wait in vain

Unwilling, I am slowly seized

At first you stole

That which I longed

To take into my own embrace

As black as coal

Your heart prolonged

To capture that which I did chase

But boredom set

And want no more

The one you took away from me

And like a pet

Once cuteness thaws

You cast my one into the sea

Uncaringly

You change your tact

And see me as the challenge new

But yet I see

This selfish act

And cast a frozen shoulder to

I stand alone

My arm surpassed

As all around close friends applaud

A heart of stone

Yet set in glass

Shows but this stubborn heart, a fraud

There’s something there

I can’t avoid

These feelings stir inside of me

I do not dare

Jump in this void

For no escape here can I see

So back away

And let me go

There’s nothing more that we can do

What can I say?

All this you know

You go your way and I shall to.

Copyright © 2011 by Simon Austin