Never Have I Questioned This Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Never have I questioned,
Your uniqueness or abilities to doubt.
Or your silent reaching for the stars,
When gazing upon them...
With eyes sparkling and bright.
As if to look beyond to crave,
Light years away...
A feeding of an appetite that remains to stay.

Never have I questioned,
Your wish to climb to heights.
Since both of us would sit at night,
To witness a disappearing Sunset with kept wishes...
For an understanding we knew would never disappear.
And happiness we felt would always be near.

Never have I questioned but condoned,
Your need to travel alone on a separate path.
Or the love we share together,
Would ever stay forever like this to last.
Never have I questioned this!
I can't or ever will.

I knew when we met,
Both of us were so blessed.
And both of us not yet ready to accept,
Living just to express our love.
Not yet to express with a selfishness kept.

Too much for others we live for it to give.
And with it done to do committed,
Like the mission of the Moon.
Like the mission of the Sun!
And both of us know we have missions,
With a doing to complete.
Until those missions are done.

I knew when we met we were both so blessed.
And both not yet ready to accept,
Living just to express a selfish love kept.
To condone in isolated happiness away from the rest.
Our missions will not permit this.
Not yet!

Never have I questioned,
Your uniqueness or abilities to doubt.
Or your silent reaching for the stars,
When gazing upon them...
With eyes sparkling and bright.
As if to look beyond to crave,
Light years away...
A feeding of an appetite that remains to stay.

Never have I come to question this!
Or why our missions are on separate paths.
Never have I questioned this!
Or those tasks we have to complete and pass.
Never have I come to question this!
Even though I will admit your presence is missed.