Dismissed

You know you never said the words
but the look, that sideways glance
with the toss of the head,
suggests
somehow
you did.

There is no going back
revisiting that moment,
no chance of apology,
you are dismissed
summarily
and written into history.

And yet you are told
it is better you know
than to remain in ignorance.

For heaven’s sake, why?
Ignorance is bliss
compared with this!
© 12 April 2007, I.D. Carswell