Spelling Lesson

By Chalin

"Tell me one more time, how you're sorry about the way this all went down."

To explain
what you do to me
is so much harder
than you make it out

to Be
sorry for Who I Am
and where I Am.

for capitalizing
those letters, to
give myself respect

and belittle y-o-u
spelled out with a cringe
and a quick glance;

to make sure it's really
There.

you were never Here
or There;
i never thought to
wonder

why and where
you were doing
without me.

and me without Y-O-U.

Copyright, 2001

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Published on Saturday, November 24, 2001.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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