Claudine Longet

How Insensitive

Claudine Longet


How insensitive I must have seemed 
when she told me that she loved me . . . 
how unmoved an' cold  I must have seemed 
when she told me so sincerely  

Why  she must have asked 
do I just turn an' stare in icy silence? 
What was I to say   
what can you say when a love affair is over?  

Now, she's gone away 
and I'm alone with a memory of her last look  
vague an' drawn an' sad . . . I see it still 
all her heartbreak in that last look  

How she must have asked 
could I just turn an' stare in icy silence? 
What was I to do  . . . 
what can one do when a love affair is over?  

What can you do  
when a love affair is over?  

It's over