I Have Only One Day To Live
I HAVE ONLY ONE DAY TO LIVE
I really I want to be close beside you
But am writing because you are too
Far away to travel, now at sunset
It is too long since we last met
Long years of sterile separation
Years filled with busy work’s duration
But what is that work worth now
Compared with your closeness? Oh how
We fuss around like bees
And miss the woods for the trees.
I have missed the daily details
Of your life and its travails
And you have missed mine
Missed somewhere along the line.
Glass hearts break, tears scald, voice wails,
Teeth gnash, hair rips, breaths sob, nothing avails.
All regret is wasted breath
When I am so close to death
Had I the wings of time
It would again be spring sublime
We would walk and live another
Lifetime of love, my brother.
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2011
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