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# So-and-So
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/so-and-so/
- Published: 2017-09-03T21:15:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T21:40:35.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Romance, #Conflict and Reckoning, #26

So,  
you don't want the words I spill,  
pouring from this surging swell,  
cresting lips you've known so well  
from depths of me you've helped to fill  
  
'Why bother with men,' an old man said  
one chilly night, when the leaves were dead,  
after up his walk my feet did tread;  
and, quickened, my mind and my heart sped  
  
"I love because I must," said I,  
and gazed into that darkened sky  
remembering how many had said 'Goodbye,'  
loving each one anew to verify  
  
So,  
you don't want words uttered now, do you?  
Don't want my heart, though undoubtedly true.  
Don't want to delve into all we've been through,  
Can't walk away to a fresh morning dew  
  
And that's still your trouble, my favorite dear:  
That the past remains: insurmountable fear,  
You'd sooner look on us with distasteful sneer,  
Sooner leave your past lonely and shed not a tear  
  
I'll cry for us both, as I've cried times before  
And I'll keep true to us, as I've kept true our lore  
While you hold yourself stifled, and life, you ignore -  
But I'll not forsake you; you're one I adore