From One Fool To Another Poem by Loraine Lotter

I’ve been down this road so many times before.
Fall too hard and you’ll end up on the floor,
like a marionette with broken strings.
You cut my air, just like you cut my wings.

Follow the routine: pain, love, hurt, love, pain.
What’s the difference? It’s always the same.
Endings were never meant to be good.
You played the game and took what you could.

Believe in what you want to,
I can’t convince you otherwise.
It takes a fool to love a fool
beneath half-covered lies.
The truth is hanging on my lips,
but you cast me a blinded eye.
So tell me what to make of this,
of what once had been mine.

You say you need to clear your head,
but you can’t save love if it’s already dead.
Now your cowardice behaviour is in my face.
You’re either in or you’re out, out of this place.

I’m scared to feel the final blow,
to lose the only thing I know,
to have a heart, but not a home.
Sometimes you just have to let him go…