POETRY: You'd think by now

Sunday, May 08, 2016

You would think by now

I’d be used to people not

Caring for my personality

You would think by now it

Wouldn’t affect me so much

When not included and yet it

Still hurts like the dickens

And I nearly burned the place

To the ground and if I hadn’t

Gone back upstairs everything

Would have gone up in smoke

Including my dog Bogie

You would think by now

I’d stop giving so much of a damn

And would just accept my loner

Status as a badge of honor and

Not as a Scarlet Letter

You’d think by now I would stop asking

For rides and get it through my thick

Skull that it’s their loss not mine those

Who don’t want me around

And I nearly went to hell when

Sacrificing everything for the words

I believed would save me and the

Words can only do so much when your

Grave is covered in dirt and grime

Charles Cicirella

5/4/2016

POETRY