Love In Vain
The table is set & dinner is ready.
The kids are staying with friends.
They are spending the night at Eddie’s.
I can’t wait for this evening to begin.
I patiently wait, but you don’t show.
This is our chance to make amends.
Another chance to make it a go.
To, finally be real,—- no pretends.
The dinner is being kept warm.
It is getting later by the hour.
My heart is slowly being torn.
It is wilting—- like a flower.
Must this night be ruined before it begins.
Like so many others before this.
This was going to be our time to make amends.
Instead, our relationship is sinking, like a ship.
I don’t want it to end this way.
I didn’t want it to end at all.
But, if you’ve found someone else for play.
I see the handwriting on the wall.
It looks like another night for my tears to fall.
It’s way too late. I put the dinner away.
I couldn’t eat.—- My heart wasn’t it.
I lie in bed, but I am wide awake.
My good mood is gone. I feel like s—t.
Finally, I hear you come in.
You slowly come up the stairs.
You smell of cigarettes and gin.
Tell your excuses to someone who cares.
I turn over and don’t say a thing.
You get undressed & slip into bed.
Soon, I hear your snores as they ring.
Then, the tears start falling from my head.
Must this night be ruined before it begins.
Like so many others before this.
This was going to be our time to make amends.
Instead, our relationship is sinking, like a ship.
I don’t want it to end this way.
I don’t want it to end at all.
But, if you’ve found someone else for play.
I see the handwriting on the wall.
It looks like another night my tears will fall.
————————————————-R. W. Johnson—–(2015)