Dead man walking

Along a Dyke

This day did I see, did I meet and was filled with mixed feelings.

One look into her beautiful, Autumn Green Eyes, and I knew,

there was something different - for a time - a pain in her heart.

I wanted so, to take her in my arms and hold her tight,

to do what ever I could to make things alright.

I knew what was to befall me, eventually, words to defend, they'd be few,

for I could not bring myself, never could be

the man she always says she can see,

and believes with all her mind, is me.

In her mind's eye, and on the breath of her thoughts,

I am visions, images, projections of all the negative

aspects of her brother, her ex lovers, her ex husband

and, I guess, all the Canadian men she has come to know.

I can not let go, and yet I know she has nothing for me.

B.J."A" 2

August 25th 2009