Soliloquy

(1)
Pull me closer or else you’ll get pulled closer
In this entanglement of needs, wants and wishes
What does your heart see in mine- one that is
Entrenched with grime and filled with dust
What is it that keeps bringing you back here?
Away from your friends and boys your age?

(2)
In this prosecution of one nubile heart
With one that has traversed every path
What do you seek from me- memories of an old man?
I have nothing to give you apart from regrets
And you need to understand that you have to
End this soon; much sooner than you want to

(3)
In an arrangement which sees me give a part of me
While you still trust every man; you’ve known little else
You need to understand how toxic it has turned into
How impossible this little charade we run has become
There’s still a tiny bit of my conscience reminding me
To keep in check those of my most feral cravings

Just as Tara is mine, and little Sila is Tara’s,
This girl sitting next to me is someone else’s daughter too.
Somebody’s little pearl who’s yet to see the world,
And understand what daft bastards men are.