Deal

Leave me

But before you go 

Please take as a hostage my ego

Sign my capitulation announcement 

Throw it into the ocean

Look deep down into it and put my stones into your pockets

It was not rocket science to misunderstand me

Tastefully announcing your failure to grasp my wandering shadow

Or forget to spell my white lies backwards

Take the sparkle out of my eyes

Blind the stars with it

And at least try to get my final hint

I can let you know

As far as I am not part of this show

That here is no one to take the final bow

Deal?

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sometimes it is so hard to be understood....and others try to see through the smoke and mirrors...
but in the end....leaving is always the unfortunate ending...and often the ego tags along...
and we just slip out the back, Jack...no bow.
really like the line "spell my white lies backwards"---
this poem is intricate...and complex like love becomes so often.
j.

[Jeannette Lunete]

Thanks a lot Jacob for the review. I appreciate it a lot! And yes, it has been so far, covered by many layers of complexity.

[John the Baptist]

There is a lot unsaid and between the lines here. Hard to tell whether the speaker is taking the blame or telling someone to take a walk. Verse 3 may be the key to the poem.

[Jeannette Lunete]

Thank you John for reading my writing! And yeah you are right. It is very unclear. Sometimes both parties should accept the blame. Either for trusting the other person way too much or losing that same trust.