LOVE GONE SOUR

A  poem about endings. Not sure I can explain exactly where it comes from. 
It is danger for any writer is to rely their usual tropes. To write from the default position, so to speak. Each poem needs to be unique, bespoke to the requirements of the concept.

Love Gone Sour

She informed me I'm like that song.

That I know the one,

that I've heard it on the radio.

She expects me to provide her

with the exact analogy

she can use to criticise me, again.

It was one of those points in life

that makes you add up the scores.

The kind that makes you question love.

A brief crystallisation of an awareness

that your life doesn't have to be like this.

Another push towards the door.

You know you will walk.

I am off to see Ryley Walker [again] next weekend. Here he is with the band.