only nice things to say..

i liked esther.
she liked many things.
a nice couch with a good movie,
was all she ever asked for.
a good friend and a confidante,
nothing much else,
not the riches in the world,
only petty things that mattered to her.

i liked esther,
she liked spongebob,
shaun and stephen and daniel,
smiling when she gushes about their lives,
as if they had a magic wand
to take her troubles away,

i liked esther
i liked the dream
esther liked to be free,
not with blue eyes in a boy's world,
not be responsible to hold him together,
in the batterings of the world.

i did nothing
i couldn't give her anything
except a broken heart.
she is happier now.
she has to be.
she was the happiest part of me.

- johnny b