I don’t miss your inane conversation,
or the way you make me wait to spit out each short sentence,
which you rarely let me finish in your impatience
to tell me the next pointless thing;
I don’t miss your inadequate wit,
which insults my ethics with its short-sighted prejudice;
I don’t miss your self-obsessed assumption that I will be interested
in your irritating and unwholesome hobbies
if you had the intelligence to pay the slightest attention
you would have wondered at my fascination for one
so limited in every way.
It’s your eyes, damn it;
I miss your eyes,
which said such different things
than those futile words which spilled from your lips.
©Jane Paterson Basil
Making it write 
I agree, the eyes tell all
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But conversation with them is a little limited 🙂
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Windows to the soul 🙂
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Maybe that’s why, as a child, I never looked into them. I was happy with my fantasies.
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Oh wow. Love this.
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Thank you. It’s just a bit of fun, but the responses to it have been interesting and revealing…
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Some people have charm despite the drivel that spills out of them. Nicely done Jane
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Thank you – I assume you’re not one to be fooled by the eyes. This poem is working like a survey…
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Well, husband has glorious eyes and does sometimes talk drivel … But generally the opposite sex hold no charms for me – eyes or not 🙂
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Good for you – I wish I’d felt that way years ago, before… but let’s not go there 🙂
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All we can do is leave the past behind and learn from it. It makes us what we are, so we can’t regret a day of it. 🙂
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Says the person who managed not to make a mess of it 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Well, there are messes in my past for sure and things I’d rather hadn’t happened to me or that I’d rather I hadn’t done – or had done. But it could be very much worse 🙂
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As long as you remembered to chuck all the bodies down that mine shaft afterwards…
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Yes, problem is I’ve been really busy of late. Might have to find myself a new mineshaft … 🙂
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They fill up so quickly…
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Don’t they? Mine shafts ain’t what they used to be
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We had disused tin mines a mile from where I used to live. All I did was think about pushing someone down the only open shaft that was left, and they blocked it off! How did they know?
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You must have very strong thoughts that penetrated the minds of the local Health and Safety Executive. Any thoughts you’d like to push into the mind of Teresa May at the moment? I can think of a few …
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I think she’d recognise subversive socialist thoughts as soon as they entered her head. It’s the words like fairness, equality and why don’t you throw yourself off a high bridge so that the unemployed and dispossessed of this country can stop feeling they have to, that would give the game away.
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True. Anyway, the Conservatives probably have some high tech devise implanted in her hair (perhaps it IS her hair) to ward off such thoughts. The last thing they want is their PM absorbing empathy or compassion from the ether
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Ah, so that’s how those dastardly tories do it…
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Well, they are the Evil Overlords …
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Ugh I dread conversations with the same kind of person in my life. One sided and ignorantly dull.
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You have my empathy.
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