I remember the first day we met
Tall
Tan
Slender
You stood with a defensive stature
Feet wide apart, crossed arms.
It was the eyes though
Watching curiously, but else
Else…
Nothing?
The first impression wouldn’t last
and
You put on a good show for awhile...
Hid the alcoholism
Hid the temper
Hid the cruelty that soon would become a way of life.
***
We asked you to change before you killed her
Breaking her heart
Crushing it from the inside out
***
What’s one to think when you ate up the attention
At the service
Bedded another women not two weeks after
Asking me if I wanted to take part of my mother home
While sifting through her ashes.
***
Koontz understood when he sent Slim MacKenzie
After your kind.
Slim would have known what I saw when I looked at you,
I just didn’t have the twilight eyes to understand.