Like the earth that shakes from pressure,
Faults it cannot contain,
I feel the tremble from forces unseen,
Feelings of love not returned.
From the depths of my heart and the thirst of my blood
To the stars in the skies above,
I feel the tremor in your hurting soul.
It’s you who I dearly love.
You ask for questions not answers
And plead a single thought.
You say you cannot distinguish
The moments we long ago lost.
As I know I love you dearly
But cannot change my ways.
I wish you could stay forever with me
And never feel your pain.
I fear you won’t remember me
Fifty years from now,
But I’ll be thinking of you,
As the trees grow old and die.
Please recall my features,
Remember my voice and mind,
For certain we will meet again
In another place and time.
The poem compares unreturned love to an earthquake. I admit I have never seen that comparison before. The twist in the story is the person not returning the love is the speaker and they are sensing it in the other person. Though the speaker loves the other person emmensely they are unable or unwilling to change to meet the needs of the other person. The love of the speaker for the other person is shown in the final two stanzas which call out an enduring remembrance and a hope that their paths will cross agains. Maybe this is just the story of two persons meant for each other, but the timing is not right?
