There is always in these situations something unsaid. We all keep things to ourselves. That is what is in the inch and a half beyond the last line.
Is he trying to say goodbye and she won't see it or is he afraid to show his feeling to avoid a complicated relationship. (Distance, no money, busy work/no work) Is he soft pedaling the relationship, just giving her enough cuz he likes her, trying really to avoid hurting her but not able to give up the drug that is she. Needing to be unencumbered so he can be the tortured soul he think he is, and probably is.
Alternative ending:
But she's not, clever or conniving
Nor totally convinced (of words not spoken)
So she takes the number 2
Craftily composes
I love you , I love you
I really do
But I really can't stand you
So I bid you
Adieu
dash dot period
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Read this one as well
The love letter comes
A poem written in request
"Write me a poem," beguilingly
she asks.
She wants to be there
in the mind of her
love, rhyming in rhythm'
the cadence of love, on his
tongue, on his cortex.
Its short and its sweet
of the earth bound roots
of a woman's soul and
her mountains
that he climbed, and sighed. But,
she thinks the thought
of many before, "What more
would he say," what is it
she would see,
in that inch and a half
beyond
the last line.
