Symbol

I can still feel your eyes on me

As I poured my poor heart out

Yet you showed no signs of hearing

No understanding past the surface

And I realize that’s the perfect symbol

Of how things always were between us

All the work I put into

Learning all I could about you

Everything you ever said

Just made me want to know you more

But somehow when I opened up

When I let you in my soul

That was when you turned away

I couldn’t see the truth before

Still don’t know the reasons why

But that one moment came unbidden

Back to me to be a sign

Of all the effort that I wasted

Calling out that what I lost

That I never really had