Pitfall : Poetry - Betrayed browse

by James McDuffie
3–14–99

Everything I see around me summons,
In me a memory of when we were happy.
Of the times we shared and felt like,
One being, moving in sync.

But has my better half betrayed me?
Has that which makes me up fallen,
From the life it once lived?

You say that we are still,
That that feeling that gives me great joy,
Still lives with in your heart.

You say those words from afar,
All I can do is cry,
Because I know you mean it.

But yet you still claim you are young,
Need to experience things, to be free.

I wish I was free but I am not,
I am a prisoner chained to my own heart.
I have found no other,
No one better than my better half.

We have to play it by ear,
Go with fate as he takes us,
Down a river of alternating,
Sorrow and joy.

Come back to me and forget about,
Forget of any other.
Another does not exist, it is only,
Your desire to be happy.

You say what I want to hear,
But do what I do not.
I feel like I have been
Stabbed from the back.