Becoming The Overman

The following is a new poem written as an apology to Shauna, the only love I've ever known...

Shauna, dear, I have some things
I never got to say
I’ve held it all inside too long,
But here I am today

And really, now it’s all my fault
I said not what I meant
I’ve held it all inside too long
While the chances came and went…

I remember when I saw you
Standing in the garden near,
The flowers all around you;
That daisy in your ear

You told me that you knew me,
But I didn’t know from where
You said that I’d forgotten
All about you standing there

But then I got to know you,
And how soon I fell in love,
But never did I tell you
All the thoughts I’m thinking of

So young we were as time goes by,
And after all the years,
I took a gal who hated you--
You filled her with such fears

Shauna, dear, I was afraid
I knew not what to do
She told me not to see you
Or this gal and I were through

So I said the words she said to say,
Those words I still deny,
And when I said those words to you
I think I made you cry

And still you never knew my love
Never knew the truth
My secret no one ever heard
My love for only you

So young we were as time goes by
And after all the years
I went away and found a home
And dried up all my tears

The moon went overhead again,
The summer changed to fall
The Earth still spun around the sun
Yet nothing changed at all

Until the night I sat alone
And watched the TV glow
And saw your face upon the screen
A face I’d grown to know

I couldn’t quite believe it
Till I heard the anchor say
Shauna’s car was hit this morning
And Shauna died today…

Oh so young you were as time goes by
And after all the years
You never knew my love for you
As daylight disappears…

Shauna, dear, I was afraid
I knew not what to do…
And now I’m standing at your grave
To say…how I love you.

I love it when you laugh at me
Oh…that sound I long to hear
I love your eyes, your hands, your lips…
That daisy in your ear

I love how I still think of you
When I’m lying in my bed
I love how there’s no girl on Earth
Who I would rather wed

I’m loving how I’m wishing
Just for once to hold you near
How I’m crying as I’m writing
And that daisy in your ear

And I’m sorry, oh, I’m sorry
About the things I said that day
And all those things that still I kept inside
Till the chances went away

Just know I love you, I love you
There’s nothing more to do
And know that every breathe I take
I’m taking just for you…

Shauna, dear, I had some things
I never got to say
I’d held it all inside too long
But here I am today

In Loving Memory of Alessandra S. Hall
March 26, 1987-July 7, 2003

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