Egress, Lover

      I love her
      Much as never more
      Could I in a starless gloom
      Suffer the feeling of stinging wounds
      Upon me
      With unvoiced curses
      For the countless moments that
      I stand naked with a broken heart
      As wretched
      Have I come to be
      Fallen from the arms of love
      In grief was I dignified of the
      Man I am

      I she hates
      Very bitterly
      Like a teasing melody
      Cruelly I suffer the feeling when
      I was hurt
      Unable to speak
      Dumb from the restless moments
      As I depart from the arms of love
      Truly cold
      In the fateful night
      I had left her in despair
      So begins the care that mockless I
      Was a man

            Lowell R. Luis
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