How Could You Be Like This?

You always look away

As if you have nothing to say

You’d be the first to admit everything’s not okay

You just drift around in the light of day,

Getting mad over nothing

Maybe I do but you never sing

Hiding the evidence of your fling

Leaving me only this pathetic string,

Okay, let’s play your game

It’s all my fault and I should feel ashamed

Worrying about you all the time leaves me lame

Perhaps you’re hollowed out expectations of fame,

How could you be like this?

Nothing but mind games and not even a kiss

You’re leaving me here in an abyss

Love isn’t game of hit or miss,

Silence between us only hides tension beneath

The predator hasn’t yet shown its teeth

Afraid we’ll have to cancel that bridal wreath

For you the loss of a partner never seems too brief,

All this boils inside my brain

Perhaps for once in your life you could abstain

Men and women like two passing trains

Like wine you’re willing to indulge the pain.