| A Prayer for You |
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| You loved me for a time without loving yourself or realizing that our love was doomed because of what was lacking. "I don't change" you said from the very beginning. Should have known then there was no hope for us because everyday after that was me trying to become what you wanted and liking the result less and less myself. As personal as my own signature forged with quiet expertise, you stole the faith I placed in my own intuition. You felt so cheated by life that you didn't recognize love when it stared you in the face and wrapped its arms around you. Each one of us were assigned to make up for the mistakes of those before us and even then we were destined to be yet another one who failed you who is without fault. Yes, I know you acknowledged your frailties but only as an excuse to continue indulging in them. How is it that one who meets with love's painful end so often cannot see it is he who brings about the result every time. Though you stand away from me now with contempt possessing every part of you, spilling from your lips in the form of accusations and meaningless insults, still I pity the pathetic representation of man you portray. My instinct is to protect you to show you that compassion will come whether you want it or not. My compassion though is met only with the arsenal of defenses with which you arm yourself. A friend says to me that you are a grown man and need no protection from reality. Surely, he doesn't know you as I do. The happiness that eludes you will come only when you find it within yourself- or encounter one who's delusions can exist peacefully with your own. I would wish you luck but I think prayers may be more effective. RLT � 2000 |