I Will Wait Poem by Tui Goodwin

As you walked away that starry night
I never though you would never again rest in my sight
As I watched your back as you walked away from me
I didn’t think it would be the last thing of you I would see.

I woke up to find that you were gone
Not even anything left of you for me to morn
You where missing and with you so was a part of me
It was like I had been ripped open for everyone to see.

I couldn’t eat or sleep for months on end
From the dread of never being able to see you again
And feeling deep down it was my entire fault
Because of all the things I had said that night that gave you a jolt.

If I had known what would become of it
My mouth would have tightly remained zipped
All this because of a stupid mistake
But by the time I realized it was already too late

I keep your picture with me where ever I go
In the golden locket you gave me all those years ago
Upon your face I take a look
For my memories are burning away and turning to soot.

Its now four years till that day
You are gone for ever they all say
But I turn away from there painful words
For until you return, I don’t travel along life’s curves

There is no meaning in my life while your not here
So I sit and wait keeping my life clear
In hope that soon we will be reunited
And we can all forget that night we fighted.

I didn’t mean it when I said I didn’t love you
I only said it so that you would be hurting to
For at that moment my heart was bleeding
Because of what I had thought someone else had been stealing.

The accusations had been false
And when I had learned this it seemed I had no pulse.
For my heart had stopped knowing I hade made that mistake
But you had already left and it seemed my hatred was fake


As I sit upon my porch steps, dreaming
I caught a sight that set my heart leaping
As I pear into the afternoon sun
Could it be? I think as I start to run.

Bare feet but I didn’t feel the pain as the prickles stung
I run fast as I feel pains piercing my lung,
To the grassy plain were we departed
To where this whole thing started.

I fall to the ground gasping for breath,
My vision blurred from unshed tears I look to the spot where you had left,
Standing in the blazing sun
There you are, looking free and full of fun.

A ragged sob escapes my mouth
I rub my eyes blinking full of drought,
After all these years could it really be you?
You kneel by my side; I see your crying to.

I fling my arms around you tight,
And crush you to me with all my might.
I whisper desperately in your ear
‘I love you to! ” you seem to cheer

I blurt out words of sorry,
I didn’t mean to accuse you of being with lorry.
He kisses me softly on my head
And kneels down softly on one leg

With his arms still warmly around me
He say’s he’s sorry and that he will make it up to me, just wait and see.
I kiss him fearsly on the lips
And he picks me up by my hips

It feels like forever since id seen his face,
But it seems like for us it wasn’t to late.
I can see us together when where older
Through the days when the world grows colder.

As we walk together that starry night
You rest again in my sight
As I watched you walk back to me
I new it would not be the last thing I would see.