Bitter is the taste

Copyright © 2002 by Richard J. Sereday Jr.
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I've been on both ends of this candle, 
both losing ends. 

To have someone who wants one,
 but belong to another, 

and I was the wanted one, 
but the one that never got picked. 

Hard, hard medicine to swallow
and bitter is the taste.

I find myself there again.