Another cup of coffee
One more unfiltered cigarette
A commitment to remember
Another promise to forget.

A love has gone sour
Analyze the breakdown to death
If I were to accept your offer
Of divorce
I couldn't ride free
Into the sunset.

Five letters poisoned with guilt
Six more paralyzed with regret
Stop complaining and face the facts
You weren't a warrior
Just a doormat
Soft in the middle
Melted in my mouth
Barely made a whisper
Nary a shout.

Take me to the valley
And drown me in gin
Roll in the grass
And savor our sin
If only I could win the game
She brilliantly played.

What's the use in solving a sphinx?
A piece is missing
The epic is incomplete.

May-03-Perkins/Pinewood