still in my heart
why are you there?
you have sold me out
more than once
disappeared when I was sick
returning when I was better
long after I stopped being contagious
and noted when the news caught up
with what I'd been saying about opiates
she's been talking about this
you say to others
I realize that you did not believe me
until the news agreed
another with words
"If you make me choose
I will choose her."
I think "You just did."
do you hear?
that is a threat
to shut me down
to shut me up
to shut me out
you won't choose
I choose now
I walk away from your threat
another tells me to visit
and talk about her dead
she has refused to talk about
my dead
to me
for five years
how can she ask me
to talk about hers?
I walk away
kicking the falling leaves
I carry each of you
in my heart
as the space between us
widens
Over the Rhine: All of my favorite people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ea9uy6Mngk