Two Mid-afternoon Verses

Two Mid-afternoon Verses


One. On Promise

Please
Promise me not to promise
That for a moment,
You would never leave
Please
But beyond my heart’s bending
Leave me if you would
With the cold comfort
And solace of numbness
Let me endure then
All my bitter breakaways
From you
From us
From the we that never was.
My songs are subdued now
Not even an empty cry.
Only the noble sadness
Of one love that in this lifetime
Could never be.


Two. On Love Leaving

I am an exiled truth
Behind life’s cruel subtleties
Caged in burning sorrow
Of chilly poetry
Conjured sleep
And pantomime smiles
Hiding all the pain
Searing through my almost
Violent rests
So deep like the silent
Sighing of the waves
Only sad rhapsodies fill my dreams
Only tears dampen my summers
No longer could you gaze
Into my once soulful eyes
They are uninviting now
Barely after your goodbye.

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