Drifted Away Poem by Linda Marie Van Tassell

I haven't seen you for a long time;
and though I miss you, I do not say
what is really in my heart. I just wish
that I could take all this pain away.

I stare dreamily out of the window,
thinking of what used to be;
and I'm surprised as I catch myself crying.
I don't know what's come over me.

So rich was our love, that I never thought
it could wind up in despair;
yet, now the sad winds blow over me
and crush me without care.

I loved the way that you used to hold me
and laugh and whisper in my ear.
It makes me feel so sad to remember
what I once held so dear.

The black looks in everyone's eyes
close in around me in mercy and rue.
I don't want anyone's pity.
The only thing I want is you.

How could you just walk away from me
and leave me like a rag on the floor?
How could you just leave me stranded
like a stranger on the shore?

Worst of all, is how I still love you,
how I still find it so hard
to heal my wounded soul
which is now battle-scarred.

I cannot change my feelings
nor my unfaltering love and trust.
I cannot change the fact that I'm
a flower in the dust.

I'm so sorry you no longer love me,
that you left me in grief and shame.
I'd do anything to make you happy,
and I thought you would do the same.

I will speak softly to you upon the wind.
I shall weep for you in the sea;
and remember our moments together
before you drifted away from me.