By Manet> goddess77@mail.utexas.edu
Date: 4 August 1999

echoes

i saw for the first time that it wouldn't be as i supposed
the heart would always hurt from not being chosen

i figured only one of us had to change for there to be a change
later is always too late to begin

i whispered to you across the boundaries of space and time
until nothing inside me moved except that which was already moving

i gave up hopes of being complete and the sorrow deepened
and soon even my memory became invention

i wanted to climb to the place where the years live
and recapture every summer star i left behind

everything beautiful has attributes of permanent longing
i cannot stand the days when you are gone