Say Good-Bye Again Like You Mean It Poem by Dennis Ryan

Sunday morning, January 22,2017 and Sunday night, January 22 at 8: 44 p.m.;
Wednesday morning, January 25 at 11: 10 a.m.; Tuesday night, January 31 at 11: 55 p.m.

"Cause it makes no sense to waste these words and twenty-five cents
On a losin' game.... You could show just a little feelin' for who I am.... "
- Mary Chapin Carpenter, "You Win Again", You Tube Music Video

Go ahead, manipulate, disappoint me again.
I'm used to it by now; but say "good-bye" again
like you mean it, so I can believe it.What do
feelings matter?(Yours?Mine?Anyone's?)
It looks like you were just fakin' it anyway
(like everyone else does) , just another pretender.
I've come to expect this sort of thing from you—
from that second you that has no feelings for me
as a human being, that is ice-cold towards me.
So please say "good-bye" again like you mean it,
so I can believe it.Be a total pretender.Make me
feel something authentic again, move me, make me
want to love you if only for a hare's breath.
Your eyes, your hair, your voice say everything,
but pretend, say "good-bye" again like you mean it.