Tell me
However painful the answer, dear
Ebony

Are you about to leave?
Remember me kindly if you can. I’m the one
Tortured by those who scorned my
Irrational behaviour
Surrendering
To your
’
Sweet innocence

Madness I suppose. Explosions of
Unleashed yearnings rendering
Sublime joy
Each precious moment I have spent with you

© 2006, Meg Troy

I watch my life from high above
As in some altered state
Surprisingly it is to me
A rather pleasant place

So far removed from what is real
I feel no hurt or pain
Where everything below me
Is happy once again

I see the roads I’ve traveled
And those that still await
I see there are no locks or chains
Or demons at the gates

I know it’s time for me to go
Back from whence I came
To face the things that really are,
The things that must be changed

I’ll find a place where love is true
Where selfish hearts can’t go
Where people give instead of take
Where kindness overflows

“Go on”, I say. “It’s time to leave”
There’s nothing left to do
If you were meant to stay with him
He’d be asking you!

© 2006, Meg Troy

I chose to keep him in me
Long after he had left
As thoughts of holding on
Suckled at my breast

Even when the robin sang
Telling me to rise
I closed my ears and hid away
Behind the window blinds

As morning welcomed mid-day
I left where he had laid; and
Stood beneath reluctant streams
That washed him all away

The sheets remained untouched for days
Each night I felt him still
Over skin and under heart
In places he had filled

Although I need to find my way
Without him in my sight
Never let me loose the joy
He gave me one sweet night

© 2006, Meg Troy