I Am No Crystal Gazer Poem by Lodigiana Poetess

I have no crystal ball to tell a future yet unseen.
To urge you change from what you are, to what you might have been.
To cover up the pains that haunt you, try to hide the scar,
I only see an open book to tell me who you are.

The angry frown, the eyes so dark like unmined anthracite.
The lips that curls around such bitter teeth that seek to bite.
A hand outstretched to offer help or maybe soothing balm,
a voice of reason, loud and strong, but meaning only calm.

Your voice once sweet and innocent, now drips with barbs of acid,
eroding heart and soul of all who once were kind and placid.
Unfeeling hands no longer grip for safety within mine
but feel the need to strike and sever our now weak life line

No crystal ball have I to see where everything went wrong,
to change a future you have set where I do not belong.
I know you're so much more than all the bile you show to me
but only you will have the power to ever just break free.

To show the world the other face that wants so much to smile,
the eyes so full of hatred now, that once could so beguile
whoever gazed within them, but now leaves a crystal ball
which shatters when looked into, and splinters lives of all.