DON'T EVER

Don't ever love me
Don't ever try

Don't ever say anything nice
You have hurt me more than thrice.

Don't ever tell me
How blue you feel
I grew up blue
At least since I was five.

Don't ever tell me
How good I am
My mother told me
How bad I am.
So what you say
Would just be lies.

©Copyright October 13, 1970 by Kathy McCarthy