By At Least 50% is My Fault
Submitted by Hopeful
Date: 2002 Mar 06
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a long string of ex-purging poems here.

Oh yes.
I have been wrong.
I have failed you by falling short
of the hopelessly high expectations you set
without my permission
or without knowing
that I could be
weak and fallible and ugly
just like the next woman on the bar stool next to me.
But you chose me
because I held my head high that day
and my smile beguiled you
with witty comments and perfect timing
all the right words sealed with a kiss
We were too tired to notice there might be more to it
so we fell head over heels
but the sad ending is
we just kept falling
and never learned how to hold each other up
we hit bottom
before we ever truly reached
in love.