Modern Narcissus

You might make a great Congressional member.

You talked too much,

You talked a lot,

You talked so much disappointment

And I held on to a red herring.

You said you like to be honest

And that you like me oh so much

That I won, beat them all out

When I wasn’t aware this was even a contest.

You wanted to see me

That nothing would hold you back

From sitting me on your face

Shame on me for clinging to a lie told every four months.

I should have known your charm was divided,

That you’d end up like the rest,

A ghost of a man

Too timid to commit.

Do you really know what you want

Or are you just prolonging maturity

By casting a net to see what he catches

I’ll leave you to feast on the carcasses of those you left behind.

I may have been fourth or fifth or whatever in line

Or perhaps I was your last option all along

Either way I pray nobody makes you feel last place

It’s a shitty place to be and I fear you would never recover.

I can patch up the holes left by your words,

The promises I can erase from my memory,

But you I caution to select your hearing

I don’t think you could heal from another silver tongue.

A new Narcissus is what I’ll remember.