[back]Departure Lounge You asked a rhetorical question The leaving implied in the mark Of whether to slink away noontime Or wait for the innocent dark. Your metaphor undercut query And put me right off my rebuff Why didn't you hold my hand lightly And simply say you'd had enough? Your simile made me right queasy The bile of 'two peas in a pod' If growing apart was so easy What gave you the right to play God? You wouldn't have been as self-serving, Or spewed forth such a sudden outburst If you'd realised that you only dumped me Cuz I couldn't get to you first!