I'm Sorry for the Pain I've Given You

Music: Black Mary
Sequenced by Barry Taylor

Alpha List Teen Poems Contents Home Copyright by Nicholas Gordon

I'm sorry for the pain I've given you. Adolescence is no cup of tea. My angry bursts bewilder even me, Just as they must disconcert you, too. Understand, no matter what I do, Still my love for you is like a sea: Tempest tossed, at times, as it must be; Great with yearning, deep, and wide, and true. Reason cannot fathom what I am Or calculate the currents of my heart. What I feel is full of creatures dark, Invisible, yet hungry to be known. No rules, even self-imposed, can dam Guest surges spilling into every part, Undoing will, surrounding each remark . . . Perhaps this sea will calm when I am grown.