Parting Poem by Barry Van Asten

Animated from the deep-rooted sentence
To take some half-glanced-at look
At your slowly turning heard. I said:
There is no need for us to end like this!
And I made some silly cold stare
Appear more than it was ever supposed.
I wanted to hold you in my arms and make
All those hurt feelings disappear...stay here!

For each day will see me twice as old,
Still heavy with decisions that I cannot make.
And the growth of time creeps always onwards
Into corner cracks and cold stairways,
Powered by desires more than mine...

Then suddenly, your hand slipped
From my tight goodbye,
And I wanted to say more than this,
But when it came to it I just said
All the wrong things and nothing else!

And I was silent as I watched you go
Into the arms of somewhere new.
And I thought: this is horrible, because I know
Nothing will mean more than how you mean to me now;
Nothing will replace the love my heart did not show!