The Landscape of my Soul

Will anyone ever love me?

Please someone, someday, make me first priority
I don't have to be first all the time (
once in a while would be nice)
But I am so sick of being always last
After work (
it's a big secret, you know)
After infatuated little girls (
she's SO fragile-we're just good friends)
After anyone or anything when the whim strikes
I feel like a mistress, waiting by the phone, leaving all spare time free
on the off chance he'll feel like spending time with me
(
and it's a big secret-after all...we work together)
I am an afterthought
never thought after

give me the strength to walk away from this man I love so much
who never learned to love
and all the others like him down the years
(
past and yet to come)

Help me to help myself
and to love myself

Will I ever love me?