Better as a Stranger

I am better as the guy with a truck. 

My only invitation

I am better as the whiskey neat at your bar. 

Will you be here tonight

I am better as someone you once met at a party. 

Had I shared too much

I am better as someone you may have worked with. 

Have I stayed in this city too long

I am better as the co-worker that makes a joke on your first day. 

Will there be a smile, will they stay

I am better as the friend you are reminded of at weddings and funerals. 

How quickly will the murmur of my memory fade

I am better as the friend that has come to visit and is gone before too long, 

whose name your children forget.

Why don’t I stay and reminisce with you a little bit longer, I should go

I am better never having been a friend. I am better never having been a partner.

I am better never having been your love.

Friend, foe, or barely an acquaintance, it is better that you forget me,

because I am better being forgot.