LIKE A BABY

Like A Baby

touching you today with gentle hands 

I wanted to hurt you but could not

the pain of the memory twisted my heart into wreckage

 and made my beauty

unrecognizable to your indifferent eyes. 

you didn't even see me, then. I was merely a wraith

standing there in that doorway watching you

 slow dancing with a perfect stranger

I felt like a once welcomed kid looking in the candy store window

 now locked Keep Out!

 I didn't know quite what to feel or where to look 

or where to stand

your eyes caught mine and you gave a cold little smirk

 as the knife plunged deeper

and icy hot tears began to make their way

down my cheeks in betrayal.

damn it, I hated you then! 

I wanted to rip you to shreds 

and torture you and make

you feel the way that you made me feel 

but all I could do was watch you dance 

and cry like a baby.

©By Voo

Sometime ago