Daring to hope yet one more time I ask myself will you show me the light? Or will you be as the others who only drew me deeper into the ebony night?

A left turn here, a right turn there. Go down here. No, go up there! Pretty soon it becomes clear I am being led... nowhere.

It's obvious to one and all how naive I can be. As I continue to put my trust in the hands of the male species.

After all this time you'd think that I'd learn. But now it no longer matters. For the cremated ruins of my heart are in an ancient urn.

No more pain will I feel. No more cracks in this heart will I have to heal. For now all that remains in its place is a pile of ashes, and soot, and steel.

~Written & Copyrighted by Jesslan,
6 June 1999