Not About You

I wrote one that wasn't about you today

Even so, you might say

Of course it is, it says my name

And you might point to the L and the I and the Z and the A

When properly arranged

How the letters portray

Your eyes, your lips, your cheeks, and your face

But this poem has nothing to do

With any thoughts or feelings about you

It's about somebody else I once knew

A few years ago, maybe twenty two

Ignore the words, what I say is what's true

This has nothing to do with you

Not about the, now, frost covered ground

Or, without digging, this thing, we found

Not about that song, that voice, that sound

When she pauses as she sings "don't go"

Makes my heart drop and I breathe slow

No, it's not about that, just so you know

At this point you might call me out too

But this one is about how it's not about you

Rest assured that switch is flipped

Shears in hand, bud was nipped

Surely this shall not grow

If I'm going, I'll go

One last one that's not about you, ya know?

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