For Everything that Once Seemed Important

I remember when I spent all night
worrying over you as if that favor
would ever be returned; may it be
forgotten like everything else.
I remember when I would get angry
over the girls who like money
you would spend their hearts and
leave them like you left me; may they
be forgotten like I have been.
I remember how you sat so still
the night he was born as I cried
for the months you were gone, for
the wreck of my life, for the
thousand hurts that he would bare;
may they be forgotten, each useless
tear shed and never comforted by you.
I remember how you said you loved me
and wonder if love means anything
at all except fairy tales to make
otherwise sane women waltz down the
aisle with men who do not deserve them;
may she forget too when you find
that everything that once seemed
important is not and she is left
like the rest of us, to wonder
wish upon a star why she still loves you.