Frightened we considered, scared we try, Loving you was easy, without you I still cry, This yearning heart holds a dimming torch, Casting no shadows, unable to scorch, For you lit this candle of waxen love, setting me afire, Now the embers aren’t warm enough, to light my funeral pyre, My face within a deathmask, lines deep and scarred, Our flame once hot, left my soul charred, I wonder if I can love again, loving like before, I wonder if I can try again, wanting you I’m sure, The question remains unanswered, never past my lips, Of how you could leave me, within my solar eclipse, I would risk everything, everything I own, If you would only tell me, why am I alone, What was my transgression, what was my crime, When all I tried was to love you, what a paradigm, My love couldn’t keep you, keep you to myself, Holding too tight I lost you, unable to be yourself, So now I must reason, now I must understand, Of how not to smother, holding your gentle hand, And I must be sure, of letting you be, Being for you, and not for me. Written for Sue, June 7, 1996
Reason for writing:
Again, this was written for the love of my life, my Sue.
Pray with me that one day her and I will be reunited.
Thank you.
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