Did I Do Something Write? Poem by David Whalen

Have I, in recent days…
made you sad
Perhaps brought tears…
To your eyes

Have I rudely rent the fabric
of your heart
By reminding you of
Old loves and lies

Have I made you smile
With a memory tweak
To times long past
Yet dear

Have I made Your
skin crawl a bit
Shiver slightly
In unfounded fear

Have I made you wonder
Why things are… as they are
Have I made you ponder
If some things… really are

Have I made you snicker
Snort or chuckle
Caused you to dreamily smell
Long faded honeysuckle

Have I made you feel
That I’ve wasted your time
That you could have done Better
than to have read what I’ve written

Have I caused a big grin …With
some asinine rhyme…Made you remember
a certain letter From that special someone…
that you were smitten

Have I gotten Inside your head
To private places…
Thoughts known
to only you

Have I done these things?
If so… My heart sings
For these are things…
That only poets do