Sunday, August 11, 2024

What thee wishes February 11, 2014

  

too late to do anything but pine

 mine heart is still open

to the bid me to live and I will live

this heart that poets claim

as soft and sound

the only gift worthy

 of the heart that weeps

when you weep even

if your eyes can not perceive

 and so I stand at your command

 to languish if that is your desire

to despair if that is what the wants of me

 to die inside if that is thee request

 I am a puppet with no one

to pull the strings

too late to cover these thoughts

 tender mercies

these desires to have you

 have me to what even thee wishes of me

even the last to remain unrequited

a silent partner exiled

as Socrates might have been

 had he felt as I do


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