LCK
Acrobat
Just For Once Dammit
Look at me!
Not under over around through me,
Not with one ear straining elsewhere
Not with your thoughts distant
Inaccessible
Not with your eye to the clock
Nor your heart cased in stone
Look at me, look right at me,
And tell me I haven't been wasting my time
Just once, give me yourself,
You who are so stingy with emotion
You who turn a cold deaf ear
You who inhabit my life with an
Impermanence that makes me
Something I despise,
Something weak and wanting
Something clingy and desperate.
Just for once dammit
Look right at me and say those words
You have cruelly withheld from me
Like a prize never to be won
Like a bridge never to be crossed
Like a dream never to be realized.
Look right at me and if you can't say it
Not even this once
And mean it
Turn and walk away and set me free
From the tortuous limbo
Of your indecision.
Laurie
Look at me!
Not under over around through me,
Not with one ear straining elsewhere
Not with your thoughts distant
Inaccessible
Not with your eye to the clock
Nor your heart cased in stone
Look at me, look right at me,
And tell me I haven't been wasting my time
Just once, give me yourself,
You who are so stingy with emotion
You who turn a cold deaf ear
You who inhabit my life with an
Impermanence that makes me
Something I despise,
Something weak and wanting
Something clingy and desperate.
Just for once dammit
Look right at me and say those words
You have cruelly withheld from me
Like a prize never to be won
Like a bridge never to be crossed
Like a dream never to be realized.
Look right at me and if you can't say it
Not even this once
And mean it
Turn and walk away and set me free
From the tortuous limbo
Of your indecision.
Laurie
