Beginning To End ---Part 2

As you slow down your car She stands in the yard As you speed up your heart She says “Directions, how far” She does not recognize you Have you changed all that much She looks at you puzzled As you long for her touch And you drive away empty As you drive away cold And you drive away blackened From your heart to your soul But your path is now clear Though you’ve no place to go And those things that you’ve feared Have now rightly been shown As you walk in the kitchen The door never had locked Standing behind you still smitten The one you thought had forgot “Was that you in the car earlier Was that you, really you I couldn’t believe it Because I still love you, I do” A reward wrapped in burlap The priciest kind Where if never rejected You are never to find So make just one more promise To then promise again To be true to your feelings —from beginning to end (Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)