INDEPENDENCE DAY


     You fertilize the lawns
and have fertilized my life
with nothing but excrement

     for awhile I was like
an insect trapped in your web
through all my sentiments

     Now I am through
getting over you
and I am ready
to get on
with my life

     Sweet independence
came suddenly
after a storm of tears
it came to me

     I don't love you
I don;t need you
I don't want you
no more

     So goodbye to the heartache
the confusion that;s swelled
goodbye to the mannish heaven
that turned out to be hell

     and hello to new times
and all it has to give
for your looking at a woman
who is ready to live.