Dont Tell Me You Love Me When 2,000 Miles Say You Dont Poem by Bryan Alexander

I can write for you:

melting words
for a frozen heart

How I would have loved you
until the end of days
watching and sailing
our paper boats
float along the way
we weren't as clay
I see us love as a candle
(burning burning burning so bright)
there wasn't enough wick to handle
The fire the flame I held for you
(in my hands always in my hands)
you left me not as the moon leaves
the sky to return
but like a victim with remorseless
ashes gently laughing as I burn
ever the critic a non believer
in me, in us, in destiny
I am not and will NEVER be perfect
(I could have loved you perfectly)
though I never claimed to be
the difference is
you were enough for me
And I was something to be used
so now I sit half a man
A poet with no muse
I was right a lot of the time
about so many things
about life and love
the stillness in your eyes
and how you would leave me in the spring

so as the cold winter fills my vacant heart
when you left you paid no rent
these are the last words the last lines
that I will ever lament
I cant love you
I wont love you
it was like swimming in cement