A poem about love by Barbara Edwards

                        Bricks

You said you needed time to sort your feelings out

To understand and decide what love is all about

Stupidly I nodded when you asked me to wait

No matter your decision, it came too late

Love’s glowing scorched my heart...

            Love’s burning teared my eye

To stop the heat that sears my soul

            I’ve built a wall heart high

So my eyes could clear

            I made it thick and wide

Behind cold stone I put myself

            Pressed close enough to hide.

Chin up, feet braced, I have no strength

            To reach

Across that wall another will never breach

Behind my wall I am alone

            In cold unhappy night

And this will be my final poem

            There’s nothing left to write

Barbara Edwards

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