I have forgotten how to sleep
Afraid of drowning in my tears

Time is proving a brutal master
Denying my requests to forget you

I am the perfect whipping post
Thrashed to emotional breaking

I was merely an afterthought
The last of positive outcomes

Holding up the bottom of the list
A knowing recipient of last place

When you had no one else
I was there to feed your ego

I was the one to sooth the pain
To satisfy your starving

I am the cheapest of wrappers
Holding the object of your desire

A plastic protector of your wants
To be discarded after the fix

I am a sample sized answer to your needs
An appetizing Slim-Fast holdover

A duct-tape solution
To your catastrophic failure

So easily dismissed
Discarded to my own fate

A memory to be lost
Fading to complete transparency

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