I am reaching out to you
without using my hands
and you do not respond.
All my words
and thoughts of you
were useless all along.
I should have embraced you,
once again,
but you were gone.
This is the price we pay,
when we wait too long.
I could never explain
why we become
trapped inside
a lifelong charade.
I couldn’t say the words,
because they’d just evaporate
every time I saw your face
and now it’s too late.
Maybe somehow we are
better off this way.
The never been said words
could never have been heard.
The touch could never hurt,
now never in this world.
We never would have
let it get there anyway.
You and I each had our part to play.
We both know how it feels
to be left alone upon the stage.
Waiting for the last
of the applause to fade.
Now, we’ll never have to be afraid,
the moment passed when you did,
there never was a way.
Beyond the muted communication
that has gone today.
Not a touch,
not a word,
just a smile and a wave.
HG – 2016
