Reaching out slowly and steady
I take your face in my hands careful and gently
Your soft full cheeks against my palms
Your expression calm no sign of alarm

I lean forward eyes closed and peaceful
We’re face to face but eye lines unequal
Gently feel the surface of lips
Dark red running against finger tips

A tempest and tantrum a maelstrom erupts
Up rising through throat blackness from my guts
A shriek like dementia a howl like remorse  
My throat is bleeding with the effort of force

Still the scream comes and doesn’t desist
All I’ve had and lost all I’ve regretted and missed
Ragged and bruised my voice starts to shatter
Still your eyes are calm in the face of my clatter

Shaking at last the sound starts to waver
The ease of a whimper replaces hard labour
Your expression unchanged through all of my out-pour
Through memories remembered this screaming shall bore
Quoth the sadness “Forever more.”