Un-forgiving Time

By spring hews

I feel like an outsider. an intruder in her pristine eyes.
I try and walk beside her, try to belong, but I am faced with my disguise.
I tear the flesh from my smile, and remember who I am.
I have tasted bitter byle, knowing I can't go back again.
I look down at my scarred hands.
Notice they hold only sad memories.
Time is an hour glass rapidly turning sands.
Looking in her eyes once more, I am faced with what I used to be.
However, I walk behind observing.
Listening to her laughter and find that I am un-deserving of the forgiveness that I am after.

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Copyright 2012 spring hews
Published on Monday, September 2, 2002.     Filed under: "Depressed" and "Poetry"

Author's Note:

I wrote this poem with my daughter. It was in a motel room. The first night I'd seen her, touched her, smelled her for five long gruelling years.
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