On Parting

I feel the beatings of your heart Strive towards me with steel-bound love, And though as now we are apart I can’t love you more than enough. You are to me my bonnie lass, And all my darkest woes expressed Can ne’er outnumber all in past Our joint-found years now put to rest. I see tears from your eyes like brine Fall down your cold and withered cheek. No words roll off the tongue of mine. If only hearts and souls could speak, I would say what could find my heart In fairest prose or poetry. What pity now that we’re apart, For you meant the whole world to me. © 2013 Gleb Zavlanov