DM Babbit Poet Free verse

I Cried For You

I cried for you today,
   tears of living in your absence.
Maybe not so much for you
   but rather,
   my own selfishness in missing you.

I await the time of healing,
  of getting beyond the loneliness.
It doesn't seem possible,
   so many things
   stir up your memory.

I was so blinded
   by the nonsense of the world.
I must have been inattentive,
   oblivious to what we shared
   when you were here.

Why did you put up with me
   and love me 
   with all my flaws?

I am grateful beyond words
   and what lies in my recollected memories.
Maybe now, at last,
   I can see
   the reality of who we were.

I was nothing and no one
  by myself.
I cried for you today,
  realizing you loved me more
  than I ever loved you.

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