One man's vision
a woman's dream
and you do not despise me
but hold me chaste
now our paths are taken
now I must hold you lost
until you come again

no more poems will be written in your name

I look at you and feel nothing
numb
Not even a shred of knowledge
recognition
Of hurt or love or passion
I look at you
and know nothing
of the ‘man’ you have become
I read your words
and know they could have been mine
written for me
in different tine and meter
I see your poems
- and nothing comes -
your soul
- and I walk away -

There was a time I loved you
would have cared for you more than
life itself
cried for you and broke my heart
that you might heal
There was a time I knew you
and cared
now e’en your memory dies

There is a need
an aching rawness
a bitterness
a pain and
hurt
I cannot comfort
There is a need
and aching rawness
a bitterness
a deepest
wound
only You can heal
There is a need
for You

There are words for this
     but i do not know them
There are cries for this
     but my heart cannot collect
The sobbings and swellings and
     tears
The emotion that gathers at the door
There are words for this
     but i do not know them