Apology

Perhaps now's the time

Or do I just believe it is?

Time takes no prisoners

And so it comes to this

I certainly saw no signs

Someone else set the stage

But somewhere a prologue was written

And now it's time to turn the page

Shut the book

The story's done

Too bad you didn't see

That you were in one

This I write for myself alone

I do know it'll never be read

A secret kept silenced

And now it's time to be said

I wish you to know

This had no other ending

And yet I write this now

For some fences need mending

I blame you not for cruelty

No taxes for your ignorance

You believed my monologue

I shall demand no penance

I wont deny a trifling hope

A single second's slip

A wish afraid to be spoken

That the balance in my favor would tip

Yet I know that to wish for a chance

While I offered you none

Is nothing short of cowardice

And that is simply not done

Mea culpa I admit it straight

For all the times you tried

This pain is mine and mine alone

For you see, I lied.