She Is Always Asking Now Poem by Ben Partenay

is this poem about me, what
were you thinking of, whom
were you thinking of when you
wrote these words out, it
wasn’t you this time girl.

not this time nor the last time
I sat down to write was it your
face that came to mind but the

look of the sky before the thunder
comes and chases out the sun
was what came to these eyes
as well as the way you looked at me

when you told me you loved me
but couldn’t and I loved you but
couldn’t just the same and it was
all the same for awhile as you

got dressed and made your face up
into a doll of girl of a woman of a
mannequin and addressed the world
with that tart smile of yours,

what can I say but it is still you that I think
of sometimes at night even though
I haven’t wanted to, this poem
is about you