A TALE OF FAILED LOVE IN ONE ACT

(Graphic from front-page cover of Crosscurrents by Richard V. Barry)

And so it's come to be

I've had enough

Of you

As you have, too,

Of me

Let's have no trauma

No drawn out scenes

Or maudlin speeches

By drama queens

Let's close the curtain

Depart the stage

One right

One left

And seek our separate ways

Don't let the audience -

Your friends, my foes -

Force our return

To this

Our bitter stage,

With curtain calls

Admit the play is done

We're out of lines

Why have an encore?

We've had our run

It was just, after all

A one-act play:

It just happened to be

I've had enough

Of you

As you have, too,

Of me