Last Night I Cried (Spanish Dancer)

She drizzled her heart, into a vase
And placed it on my doorstep
I didn't know
How could I know?
We were worlds apart
In Spanish dance, and merriment
While all-the-while, I was just
A misbegotten entertainment
An oaf she'd found to amuse herself
And so, last night I cried...

I'd never imagined that a one-time happy heart
Could become so ruined and icy cold
And dare to laugh at shredded souls
Souls, in disarray, in heavy need
While all-the-while conniving, in heinous greed
Breaking the spirit of everything and everyone she'd meet
And so, last night I cried
My God, I wept...

It came to me, that it was not her evil heart
Or even her plotted course
But, a hole in her soul
That pushed her into a quagmire with demons
And born liars, that break the world each day
Forcing her to prepare for them
A smorgasbord, of tortured souls
That have nothing else to do but prey,
Manipulate, offend, and find a way
To make a person
Break down and cry...

The strange thing is
I now understand,
That it wasn't the anger
Or the sleight,
It was just the aching fact
That I even cried,
At all..

Tony Taylor