Don't say anything
Your words make me emotional, he pleaded

Let me say
What is left, she replied

You are gone
And I've withdrawn
I no longer express
For there's nothing left

You have engaged yourself in work
While I have poured myself in verses

These words of ache will fade as well
You will miss what you lost
I know how much I have loved
And waited
But now these words are meaningless

Still I have no complaints
For you were a stranger then
And eventually became again.

©LR