my empty heart

There is an emptiness here  
without you  
an emptiness that started  
the day you said  
 
Let me make one thing perfectly clear...  
 
And then you stole  
a part of me I've never  
been able to replace  
 
The irony of the fact  
that you left me for a stripper  
we were never really together Eve  
wasn't lost on my me  
 
I don't know the exact moment  
we weren't something  
though we never put a label on it  
 
And late at night  
when I've had too much to drink  
I wonder if  
maybe I was too crazy  
or not crazy enough  
or maybe I should have worn  
a warning sign that said  
'high maintenance'  
and you could have avoided me  
altogether  
 
Or maybe you're the kind of player  
people make posters of  
and tape them to telegraph poles  
and I just failed to noticed  
because I thought the warning  
looked like the promotional flyer  
of a hot local musician  
 
My only consolation  
is that while she might  
have had excellent pole skills  
I know she made your life hell  
and maybe gave you an STD  
 
But it doesn't sate the emptiness  
of your absence  
that once meant something  
 
My heart still feels dead  
without you  
 
-Eve-