Can I Forgive Her? Poem by Aldo Kraas

Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
I am short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish I face the fact
I am in love, and it feels like shame
Because she's gone and made a fool of me in public again
I am in love, and it feels like pain
Because I know there's too much truth in everything she claims
So I ask myself now: Can I forgive her
If she wants me to?
I ask myself: Can I even deliver
What she demands of me?
I drifed into the strangest dreams
Of youthful follies and changing teams
She admist that she is wrong
Then I wake up and remember that you can't forget
She made me some kind of laughing stock
Because I dance to disco, and you don't like rock
She makes fun of me, and even in bed she said that she was going to get Herself a real man instead
So I ask myself now: Can I forgive her
If she begs me to?
I ask myself: Can I even deliver
What she demands of me?
Or do I want revenge?