Mad Man

There's this guy I never tried to like or care about
but it happened anyway.
He's a Mad Man
if you ask me.
He can't believe
anything
anyone ever tells him
as if he were beaten
at an age
to young to know the difference
between people
and demons.
He's convinced I'm
scheming against him,
plotting in every way
just to ruin what I can,
just to harm him
when all I can sing are
his praises
and all I can do is
validate
he-who-must-not-be-named.
He's ashamed,
I think,
of me and what we've done,
thinks it's me who's gone all
wrong
when all I wanted was just
one
last time
to tell him, to show him
what he's missing
without me.
He's a Mad Man,
if you ask me.