Love Poem: The Seconhand Emotion

The Seconhand Emotion

You said you loved me
But behind your eyes
I saw another 

Your lips told me
I was secondhand shopping
And I was but - second best

I could never own your words
For their value fell short
Of my heart

© Brenda V Northeast   14th January 2012

For Dana'lynn Smith   The Secondhand emotion contest
deadline Wed. 29th / 2/ 2012