WILFRED JOHN - I FELT LONELY

I'm through pulling punches,
Lowering my head to shield my eyes
From the wind.

There were moments that night
When time slowed to a thick
Crystalline creep, and misleading
Miracles reflected in her eyes.

I felt a lonely wind drive through me
when her arms clasped behind my back.
I'd built my foundation on sand,
and the walls were already breaking about me.

I asked you to help me,
To give me a moment that was real
And to taste the night one last time.

When she let go, the tide had crept in
And I watched in mute, impotent horror
When she drifted to sea a thick vapour
I still can't extricate from my eyes.

WILFRED JOHN

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