By Ali
Date: 2003 Nov 19
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Between the Wildfires

Sometimes
It's all about goodbye--
That one "simple" word,
That remains anything but
Simple.  There are myths
Of reasons, tyrannts
Of truths, but that's only half
Of an explanation.
Where's your heart in all of this?
I only glimpse its edges--the whole
Enigma keeps drifting
In and out, existing between the wildfires
That burn bridges, breathing silence,
And choking on all the words
Except one:  Goodbye.  
I never thought that I'd
Have to know again that slighted feeling,
That inner seizure in my smile,
And it all is caused by just one word,
But it isn't really--it's the man
Behind it.  Invisible, mysterious,
And secreted in ways I can't explain,
In dreams I can't detail
Because they have so quickly faded--
No, it isn't about goodbye, not really.
It's about loss, and the hurricane
Of silence and doubt just before--
One final parting kiss, an embrace
That could last forever, but only if...
It doesn't matter, anyway.
I can't keep you here,
And I won't even try--
My love has been sacrifice enough.