Lover, Friend, Enemy, All The Same

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by

Peter Andrew Gunnis

 

 

 

your face haunts me in the middle of the night

a brilliant smile that makes my heart soar

sometimes at night i still feel your skin on mine

you took my manhood when you left, crying i go back to sleep

 

your body to me was the greatest temple

i worshiped it daily, up close and from afar

your eyes and loving words hiding the truth

a pool of lies, an ocean of deciept

 

i understand you did what you had to do

late nights worrying and even later nights talking

you played me for a fool, what a tune i must have made

life comes full circle, i now understand karma

 

my life with you amazingly mirrored another

this time it was i who got played

my howls in the night of forgiveness and apology

to a person i hurt in my youth, unanswered, unfullfilled

 

rebuilding my life after the destruction of my love

while hard, it is refreshing, my new eyes see truth

how can you live with someone knowing no future?

how can you have a future without knowing love?