Lessons Learnt
Draw a circle around your lover
not a heart, they say,
for a heart can be broken
but a circle is neverending.

My circle broke.
What happens now?

Don't look at me and think I'm crying
because I'm not.
At least not in public.
Don't apologize to me
because I wouldn't lay down for you.
It's your loss,
of my affection,
and my gain,
of what you really are and want.
A lesson learned too late
but learned all the same.

                                August 4, 2001
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