Seppuku
She would not let me live for her.Then when she saw me again
there was an absence in her eyes,
an empty space that something in me
longed to fill. Sword poised,
I poured everything inside me
in a pool around my feet.
But just like every other time,
she turned to leave, me doubled
over, waiting for the quick,
clean stroke that never came.
14 March, 2001
Five Rivers