Somebody Else's Turn

by Wayne Wysocki

You hurt me and left me alone

With a heart that's too broken to yearn,

Then you called me and said on the phone

You were sorry and you'd return.

No thank you, I said, that's enough,

A moth in a flame has to learn;

And your heartbreaking love is too rough,

Now it's somebody else's turn.

Now somebody else will desert me,

Seems the people I love always do;

Now somebody else, dear, can hurt me,

But it's got to be somebody new.

Forget about me, we are through,

My future is not your concern;

I'll get hurt, but it won't be by you,

Now it's somebody else's turn.

Copyright © 2018 Wayne Wysocki
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