Leaves No Trace Poem by Char Pattrick

You harmed yourself and didn't think of me
I can't blame you for that, and yet I do
For now your pain becomes my legacy What agony impelled you not to be?
I loved you, wasn't that enough for you?
You harmed yourself and didn't think of me

Nor saw through my eyes what you made me see
Nor cared about my life when yours was through
And now your pain becomes my legacy

And I must fight to keep my sanity
For what you did defines what must be true
You harmed yourself and didn't think of me

I cannot think you did it selfishly
So great a sacrifice leaves nothing due
But now your pain becomes my legacy And I must sail across that bitter sea


That leaves no trace of joy or residue
You harmed yourself and didn't think of me
So now your pain becomes my legacy