A Man With Zero Pride Poem by NIGEL SANDERS

YOU DUMPED ME JUST SEVEN DAYS AGO
A WEEK THAT SEEMED LIKE YEARS
AS YOU WERE DEAF TO ALL MY PLEAS
AND LAUGHED AT ALL MY TEARS.
I SAID I COULDN'T FACE THE WORLD
I VOWED I'D RUN AND HIDE
FOR THE LACK OF INTEREST YOU SHOWED ME
I MIGHT AS WELL HAVE DIED.

Don't leave me love, don't walk away
I need you by my side
And then I started begging her
A man with zero pride

MY FLAT, LIKE ME, AN EMPTY SHELL
WITH A LANDLORD OF DESPAIR
MY BROKEN HEART, EVICTED NOW
BUT YOU, OF COURSE, DON'T CARE.
SO LAST NIGHT, I WALKED THE TOWN
AND WENT TO OUR OLD HAUNTS
BUT THE PUBS THEY WERE COLD COMFORT
AND SERVED ME CRUEL TAUNTS.

Don't leave me love, don't walk away
I need you by my side
And then I started begging her
A man with zero pride

WAS IT JUST JACK DANIELS TALKING
WERE MY EYES DECEIVING ME
AS YOU APPEARED FROM NOWHERE
TO TEST MY REALITY.
YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO UTTER WORDS
YOUR EMERALD EYES ON FIRE
I SAW THE LOOK YOU GAVE TO ME
THE LOOK THAT SAID "YOU LIAR".

Don't leave me love, don't walk away
I need you by my side
And then I started begging her
A man with zero pride

"I THOUGHT YOU COULDN'T GO OUT" SHE SAID
"WITHOUT ME YOU COULDN'T BREATHE"
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO HER
I KNEW IT WAS TIME TO LEAVE.
IT WAS ONLY THEN I NOTICED HIM
HER EX CAME ACROSS THE FLOOR
AND BY THE WAY SHE KISSED HIM
HE WAS HER EX NO MORE

You left me love, you walked away
No longer by my side
My begging was no use at all
Your love for me had died