I see you sitting beside the road under a tall Elm tree Near a thicket with a stream running by at your feet. Your head held up by the one hand With your elbow resting against the tree. Your body turned away from me on one side. Dressed in a velveteen camisole top with a white skirt – all alone. As I approach you - you turn your eyes toward me And say, “Shall you not leave me too, my love?” Looking into your eyes I see somehow that I must be invisible Because your question was not meant for me. It was for the very thing in the essence of love. Tears trickle down your cheeks As my heart and soul sits down beside you. You allow me to wipe the tears away And I watch as they reappear one by one - Falling ever so slowly into my offered handkerchief. Then I set my handkerchief into my own tears and Then back into yours once again. All the while feeling the most Indescribable emotions – ones for which I have no way to dispose of or account for.
Taking you into my arms I say to you: “Yes, I am positive that I have a soul within me and All the scientists, nor all the learned professors Or all of their books combined could ever convince me otherwise. I know it must be true, dear one – Because you could not be so lucky as to have the only one. If ever love does leave you – It will be to go to heaven to make sure that Your place is properly prepared for you.”
You lean into me, holding me Like a lost child in a never ending maze.
And then I awaken… Another night passes into the morning of the never was. Are things the way they seem Or are they simply unfinished lines - just because?
Sometimes I sit with the pain of so many others. Each one blending their tears with my own. Sometimes just blurbs or dots on a page. Sharing so many unfinished lines.