Why?

 

O why did I find you inside my heart

Gently invading those regions of dark

Lost to loneliness, to love, and to time

Forgotten of things noble and sublime?

 

When did my eyes look but did not see,

With your tender hands ever so gently

My languished soul so faintly caressing

And my heart so slowly acquiescing?

 

When, like a thief in the silence of night,

And completely in the sun's glowing light,

Did you take that most tender part of me

That has found illusive love so rarely?

 

And why now must I find inside my heart

One that must be hidden within the dark,

Shielded from the stony world outside,

Forever covered and kept in disguise?

 

Why must the scalding tears my eyes have cried

Be answered, and yet be also deprived?

And by the same soothing kiss you give me,

The hopeful life I can't have, you show me.

 

 

Barbara Benjamin   

Rhymed Couplets                                                                                                   

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