Mar. 5, 1973 11:00 a.m. Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri


A Love Letter to Emma

This is the last day of my love
This is my reackoned heartbeat
I sit alone recounting weeks before last
It does no help
I cry inside
My soul is seeping out

I've given you all I could
I've given you unspotted love
Unadorned with clusters of wrong feelings
This gift to you I inscribed
freely postulating answers in your eyes

Dear love, if you wanted to
You could hurt not have hurt me more
Memories mingle with ragged tears
Rivulets of lost emotions
Craving remembrance

I do remember you
You, who made me forget all else
Afraid to face reality

Whether it was
Or wasn't
Or is
I've lost my care

And only you can bring it back
1973

copyright 1999-2005 by Michael F. Nyiri
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