Volume 2 , Number 10
October , 1997
Question
by Dean Shutt
who would have thought
you would have such power after so many yearsall this time
all of my pain all for nothingdon't you understand
i am over you i've beaten those demonsi don't lie awake
til all hours of the night dreaming of things that can never bei don't think of you
of your laugh of your souli don't give thought to love
and family and foreveri don't need that anymore
i've my cynicism and ready quipsi don't think of holding you
feeling you next to me making the world righti am beyond all of that now
beyond love beyond youi have moved on
i won't let my agonies be in vain i won't let the demons winsoon the light will come
and i will throw on the mask that hides my being from prying eyesi will move through this life i've made
without you without lovei will tell myself
i am a happy man this night an aberrationi am over you
the promise of your love holds no sway over methen comes the darkness
the ticking clock the laughing demonsi'll ask yet again
the question without answer the mystery without a cluehow can still you have this power over me
when i am so obviously over you