Because I Love You

Life offers no shortage of lessons to learn

 

You must be here to teach me

A catalyst of such sorrow

Only because I love you

How I’d like you to know

 

Or do I really love you

As much as I’d want to

Are my reasons too selfish

That you don’t get on the ball

 

At a distance you keep

Close enough that I see

Yet too far away to touch

The reasons I don’t follow

 

No word has been given

So your needs I don't know

Love has become thwarted

No explanation at all

 

What are you trying to teach me

For what lessons did I wish

From another lifetime distant

That my mind does not recall

 

Yet I remember what love is

The will to let go

Then his grace will carry me

Beyond all my sorrow

 

And in that state of surrender

I must watch you go

Because I do love you

How I’ll never know

Reviews

[Seriana]

Dang it!!! This is sad. Stupid lessons. :) But, you are right. Completely right, and how we fight those lessons. Oh how we fight them.

This was a nice, to the point piece. I enjoyed it very much.

[Jules]

Very passionate and expressive!! I like the ideas behind this poem!!