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A Poet's Remorse
Keep me in your prayers tonight
For you’ll be safe in mine
And wish for me on the evening star
So our two wishes combine.
I am not your love, nor will I be,
I long for you in vain.
But still you linger in my thoughts
Each image brings such pain.
Each day as I see you I wonder
How life together would be.
But you turn away to some other man’s eye
And I am alone save for me.
The words aren’t my own as I scribble them on the page
yet I mean every one.
A wellspring of emotion has burst forth from me and has splattered like
the blood of my innermost thoughts lying exposed and naked
on paper for the world to stare like a carwreck.
Eraser lies poised to strike like a vulture and devour the words
But I stop it.
Tears cloud my vision and I fight to see what I have written
What have I wrought.
