your silence hurts me
but I know that is just the way
it has to be
for what a person refuses most to look at
is exactly what it is he has to see
truth unadorned
a once before unhealed wound opens up
further for yet another helpless soul
and eventual happiness blooms
hopeful within the magic of the meaning
of the mystical word 'We'
and all is alas quietly well in love's
sweet romantic yet sometimes painful role
and the lives that have become intertwined
firmly move ahead
(or so they hope)........................
(Dec. 19, 1994)