REPLACEMENT PARTS

I am questing

I am searching

I am looking for a girl

to make me forget about you.

I am walking the streets

I am prowling the night

I am painting the town

in a vain effort

to replace you in my heart.

I must keep at it

continue to attempt to excise you from my innards

exorcise you from being most beautiful in my eyes.

There must be a way to get you out of my second sight

this plight is severe

I fear

I'll never be free

of thee.

Still, I search.

Still, I quest.

Still, I endeavor to find something

better.

And still, every night

fruitless, frustrated

I return

home

to you

Mami.