While You Were Away

While You Were Away
Isabella told him
‘While you were away,
Rome turned the world burned
While you were away
Man’s joys became women’s toys
And I tried so hard to live without you’

‘I’ve been to other side
I discovered reason to live, a brand new way to love
While I was away
Everything shifted rotated
In a game of hypothetical, theoretical,
Nautical, methodical, musical chairs’

She burned and inquired:
As you reached the ledge, our worlds edge
What did you see, did you miss me?
Because the cocoa and gold flow
Will make my empire grow
But I just don’t love you no more
I finally learned to live without you’

© 2015 D. Dudeck