What I Do Not Hate, But What I Wish That Peace Poem by La Janine Garrett

I know your love
Yet I do not

I see your eyes
Yet I do not see
The truth within

I know your words
For you scream
Those many, of times
Yet I, I know nothing of
Your voice for when you speak it is
As if you hold your tongue

I know your face for it is my face
Hints of who I am
Yet I know nothing of yours
For you hide it behind a mask

Who am I to speak, for you know
Not of whom I am
For I slipped away these years
I didn’t mean any harm

As you have not
Yet it is what it is
I know you know
Not of my voice
For I stopped in those days

I know, what I known then
Yet could not find the words
To our silence

And yes I miss you too
Yet we both know
This is the end
For you will not speak
Nor I, so this is love
I say this for I do not
Remember saying so
Now this is good-bye…
Only that shall remain
to be said is that of
What could have been