Costing Dearly Poem by Wilfred Mellers

What I had prized was only a memory
Fancy fading images of what use to be
The truth is you never valued me
On my soul, you showed no mercy

What I had adored is only in my head
Forsaken, shanked and left for dead
How memories sometimes distort the truth
Now a bittersweet taste of sour Vermouth

Better off I am now for I can see clear
For times needed you were never there
Your affection was never really sincere
My assessments you never wanted to hear

So much time spent wasted
Rancid now the foods once tasted
Still memories I want to be erased
Two-faced jester with dignity displaced

For time and only time shall tell
From good graces, you fell
Once great but now just a shell
You fade to shades of pastel

You and the jezebel crew
Red no longer wanting blue
What did you get yourself into?
Your words were spoken so untrue

Someone lacking a single virtue
Playing now at a different venue
Should have seen my point of view
No one now comes to your rescue

What a price to pay at such a cost
Iced over now from winter's frost
To only realize what you have lost
All you see now is only my exhaust


(July 23,2011)