Why?
I knew you when
you were a girl all alone without love.
I took you in.
I wooed you , & showered you with love.
We had a love.
A love like no other that I had known.
Sent from above.
It was wondrous, & lovely. Had I known,
It would end.
When someone much better came along.
So why pretend.
It seemed right, but it was so wrong.
I’m all alone.
Alone in a world without love.
I wish I’d known.
It would end with you killing the dove.
What can I do?
I feel shattered beyond all repair.
If I had you.
I would no longer be in such despair.
I have to go.
My collar turned up against the wind.
I feel so low.
I feel I will never love again.
You will never know
That I miss you more than I can bare.
It is time for me to go.
My life is over. It’s not going anywhere.
————————R. W. Johnson—–(2016)