The Tears of the Threshold

1. You never stepped across the threshold of my heart, and I, sitting at that doorway, have worn away into nothing but tears.

2. Your departure made me human!

3. While you leveled your accusations of my busyness, you let slip—and left behind—my love itself.

4. Perhaps you are a child of time, but I am not!

5. I bow to your courage, the same courage that forced even mine to lower its head.

6. Before my poetry, all your efforts will come to nothing—this is my promise.

7. Those few words I could never bring myself to speak—the words that people utter a thousand times a day without thought.

8. I have never let time move ahead of itself!

9. This much is my solace—you did meet my eyes, once.

10. Remember this: let not your words remain merely words.