Poems From an Odd Person

Goodbye? (For B, Part 2)

Maybe I should forgive you,

I look at your photograph

And I realise you are only a man:

A human with traits and strengths;

Frailties and faults; struggling as best as you can.

In the photo you touch me,

A fleeting moment captured,

Then the thousands of miles return again,

The breach settles back into place-

All that we have in common is our pain.

And now I am feeling guilt,

Expecting too much of you,

Expecting too much from the two of us,

The depths are just that: too deep,

How could we possibly find a mutual truth?

So maybe I'll forgive you,

And maybe I'll forgive me,

And our common ground will be acceptance

Of here and now and to come,

And not the muddled mess there once was.