I End My Letters, "Thoughts, Prayers, and Heart"
Hear me read the poem as an MP3 file.
I end my letters, "Thoughts, prayers, and
heart"
Because that's where I keep you now you're gone
These long
and bitter years I've been alone.
I have neither the aptitude nor
art
To tell you how it feels to be apart
From you, where passion
turns to stone,
And all I do is hunger for my home
Across a sea too
changeable to chart.
Please remember always that I love you
Though
time and distance try to intervene,
And I can hold you only from
afar.
I find I can endure my life without you
By treasuring what
grace cannot be seen:
The silent wonder simply that you
are.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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