If You Leave, My Heart Goes Along Poem by Daleen Enslinstrydom

Every time that you do want to leave,
want to break away, want to pull out,
want to tear you away from me
pieces are jerked from my soul,

then a word comes to my thoughts
a walkway-man,
my thoughts want to hold you back,
my walk-about-man.

When streets and words lay between us
my heart wants to the walk paths to you
as expectation remains aimless in me
and my trust in you has been violated.

You did jerk the door of my heart open,
did leave it unlocked,
did leave me naked against the world
and then I want you to go away
but I also want to go along with you.

If you do stay
we are together and we do hurt
and when you leave I am alone
and its then that fear like a hungry animal
comes and gnaws on my love

as I do know that your body has stayed
but your heart did go
and then words come back to me
without meaning, without any comprehension
and in my mind I want to reason things out
while you are divided into two

but still my heart is melted into yours
and I want to drown in tears of sorrow,
want to ask you to take me along
and if I stay I am alone,
are forever without my heart
and my soul dies in loveless anguish.