It's been years since I've written a poem. I guess it just took me this long to find the proper inspiration. In any case, the mood is right, and the words are flowing. So here's what's been on my mind and heart lately:
Watching and Waiting
No greater love has e'er been known,
Than to lay down your life for another.
My aim has been nothing but
To learn to love you as such.
Who'd give up her own ambition
Sacrificing to help me reach my own.
But who's strong enough to ask
I forsake my dreams for hers.
I thought we met once in high school,
We connected a moment. Just a glimpse.
A joke in class. The school dance.
But it wasn't you at all.
I'd lost you. Before we'd e'en met.
I searched. Wand'ring. 'Til we met in college.
Lives complete, then something changed
And it wasn't you at all.
I see you in a smile. A laugh.
But you're always distant. Just out of reach.
Did we meet the other day?
Our paths finally crossing?
Maybe for the final time?
