My Breath - My Knight - My Wife

My Breath - My Knight - My Wife by Darmok 3/12/02 ~*~ Oh, those are fine words; spoken so as to never hold the cup of guilt shared, and from which, we both shall drink... deeply... sadly there... ~*~*~ Empty platitudes of love for the sake of saying "I did not want divorce..." rebuke! ~*~*~ You have divorced yourself of all my needs, and this voice that seems not even the least, to echo in silent recognition, there in your heart.... that I hurt, that I matter, that I WANT, to be loved like the virgin bride you once gave promise. ~*~*~ Where is your heart oh man of love, in books and clever words spoken with a wetted lip to another who's heart you now offer, your tenderness and care... ~*~*~ Forgetting the wife, and love of your youth, the promise of then, now and forever.... ~*~*~ ..forever in our ageless souls, there in each new wrinkle the years would wear, there in folds of flesh would caress, the beauty beneath this leathered flesh, the face of love within my breath. ~*~ I have given all that I am to thee, Of self and soul thou must believe. And now the falling, turning, golden leaves, Fades it’s burning, yearning, in silence grieves. ~*~*~ Out stretched arms of broken flesh, A winter’s coat now wears. This heart is cold and full of gray, The life inside beyond your cares. ~*~*~ My knight, my love, … your armor lays in rust, And so the days of love and dreams, Fade away the trust. ~*~*~ My heart you will not rescue This day will come to rest. I have long since faded away, In dreams beyond your glimpse and quest. ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ As much as I would give voice to her, and other's who've felt their years turn gold to rust. I know these words, have felt these words, in the years spent weeping thus. ~*~*~ Hindsight, remorse, I was a stupid man then, to ever have let the light go out in her life. Intrusted Knight, too keep the light.... there burning in my heart for Her, my wife. ~*~Shaka, the day the walls fell.... I'm a guy. This is written from the woman's perspective.....the man says he would never want a divorce...yet fails to understand he has long since abandoned his promise and love now has nothing to do with it at all, as he reacts now only from principal and pride....he does not feel the crevasse that separates the two nor the depth of her isolation. Written March 6th, 2002 © on Mar 13 2002 04:57 AM PST, Darmok    0 • 1