NEXT TIME

Next time --
Next time you need my help
To pull you out of a bad situation --
The bad decisions, a life of pain --
Just say so
Don't dress it up
Don't pretend to be interested when you're not
Don't create illusions of false feelings
Don't try to lead me on with insincere stories --
Beautiful words, written so perfectly,
So emptily --

Pretty lies
Wrapped around an ugly truth
Don't make anything easier
Don't help anyone
Because the lies, pretty as they may be
Are, in the end, even uglier
Than the ugliest of truths

And if you're even wondering,
Yes, I still love you
And I'd do it again
If that's what you need --
This is who you are
This is what you do
I'd be foolish to expect anything else from you
But I'd appreciate a little honesty
Next time --

Love this! Such a good write!

Honesty, is the commodity that always accrues much interest, yet
never seen as a bull Market to own some....

Nice Write my friend, and such GREAT passions through your words
to feel their sorrow and bitterness lived.... COOL...

I could have not said it better,what a wonderful write.
So real and so ugly and so beautiful.....


Thank you!

Sash

Thanks to all who commented --

And I have to admit, this is one of those self-inflicted wounds....in that I allow it to happen....repeatedly!

Great write, Lex. I understand how you get caught
up in the cycle. It is a really hard one to break
as you certainly know. I can truly identify with your
feelings and thoughts here.

Take care.

Awesome write, Lex.

Great write Lex....and don't beat yourself up over it. I do the same thing myself repeatedly. Oh, the choices we make.

Damn it!!! just tell the truth...
good one lex

so heartfelt..

Thanks, everybody!

They say learning from your mistakes is a good thing. I haven't quite got that one figured out yet....!

Lex, we all have that one in our lives that seem to be able to know just how to twist us the right way to make us dance behind them like the pied piper. Sad for some seem to have that control longer then we would like them too.

So until we finally say enough is enough we will dance to their tune... May you find that strength to stop the music before she starts playing it once again.....

Great write as always!!!

Brutal, yet touching at the same time. Beautiful!

You never cease to amaze me Lex. You write from the soul. It's apparent, especially here. Poignant.

nicely done... <----pepsi-----<<<

Pepsi got me through it....!

Great write!

next time
nothing will be the same
not you and sure as hell
not me
anger dull just won't cut it anymore
how will i hurt
impaled with a memory
how will you wound
dried wood and tar

next time
perhaps we will look
unexpectantly
tired warriors heavy blades
and hardened armor
between us
a battlefield
mud and blood
drying together in futility
this campaign was waged
already

just because there was no armistice
no resolution
no surrender
does not mean that it's not over
next time

obviously, i liked it.
that is how it made me feel....