Dead to Rights

I took one look at you and fell 

Rather hard 

You said one word 

And I knew 

I was dead to rights 

It happened so suddenly 

Your fleeting kisses

We pretended we couldn’t remember 

Drunk and infectious 

And I realize 

You’re a little pretentious 

But I didn’t care 

Told the truth and took the dare 

For a moment 

It didn’t matter what you said 

How you said it 

Even when everything felt a little too bright 

Because I was dead to rights 

The tears came eventuality 

And five months after 

When I took you home again 

Everyone said 

The second times on you 

But what I wanted was a sign 

That you stoped being my personal 

Land mine 

My name on your marker board 

full of people you disappointed 

By the way you like to disappear 

The way you couldn’t seem to help your sullen discarding attitude 

Putting on a show of bratty nochalence 

As if you could take back the time 

You got hurt 

And everyone was right 

The second time I was more of fool 

Used like a tool

A fallen soldier who took one ear to your heart 

And assumed it was beating 

Some things are fleeting 

You’re always fleeing  

This time it only took four days 

To stop replying 

To earse your byline

you should have known you didn’t have 

time 

This time 

And I wonder if you think about me at all 

If the last time I didn’t respond 

Made you remember 

You’re still alone 

Kicked out every last one 

of your fan club members 

Do you miss me 

When you find no one 

In the morning as you turn on the lights

But it doesn’t matter 

Because to me 

Your dead to rights