You Don't Know Me

We may not have tomorrow
and yesterday is past
Our love was a learning love
too gay, too sweet to last

Steady love runs a longer while
than the ecstasy
that tilts the stars
and flames for half a mile

But I would much rather have
had you today than centuries
with someone else

You never really knew me
I never really talked to you
I only said conventional things
the way that people do

I played the part assigned me
you knew my color scheme
that I liked dark windless nights
and my coffee with out cream

Now we have grown apart
and I will go alone
I cannot think you shall miss
one whom you've never known..
But It's Still hard
To say Goodbye.


copyright Kc sievert 1997