You And I

You were a disappointment,

to say the least---

the very, very least

You were something else,

nothing else---

nothing at all

You were slipping in your older age,

slipping and sliding

I didn't need you to tell me these things,

although you had been telling me all along

I didn't need you to show me these things,

but you had been showing me all the while

But the thing about Narcissus that no one ever seems to say---

is that he was fucking boring