Lessons Learned

Teardrops on the pillowcase,

Love letters on the floor,

Memories of what used to be,

Only this and nothing more.

A water colored sunset

Does not ease the pain,

As tear streams flow upon my cheek,

Falling gentile as the rain.

Now the circle is complete,

My past has come back to me,

With the shoe on the other foot,

It's all so clear to see.

The words you spoke just yesterday,

Which brought us to our end,

Were spoken by me just a decade past,

Unto another friend

A thoughtless act so long ago,

When another's love I spurned,

Comes back to me so bitterly,

As a painful lesson learned.

Paul Allen Rice