From my Dark Watcher Series;

You came into my life,
offering me your heart.
I could be what you needed,
and be loved and protected,
I felt it could be a good start.
Your hands taught me pleasure,
the same hands also brought pain.
Your words could bring the sunshine,
but more often they brought the rain.
I looked to you for answers,
for you were older in age.
Then I began to see in you,
the ghost of simmering rage.
Fear and control, gains respect,
you would righteously boast.
Searching for your goal with
cruel words, and hands,
only to succeed in hurting
the ones you claimed to love most.
So much goodness in you, so
much love and tenderness.
How could such a good-hearted man,
show his family they meant so much less?
Now your children are almost grown,
the woman you love wants to leave.
Now you feel the need in you, to
say the things she needed to hear.
Let her know that you love her,
and always want her near.
You know in her heart there are feelings,
though she is pushing them away.
Can you close the gap between you
before those good thoughts also fade?
She says “I wish I could say, that I can
forget the past, that all I want is for this
relationship to last.
But pretend I will no longer do.
I don’t want my sadness, or decision
to cause you anymore pain, I just have
a great need in my heart for more sunshine,
and much less rain.”

Kathleen Kohl/Levinski