Once I Loved You

Once

I loved you

With passion, trembling

Awake on the edge of twilight sleep

Listening to you breathe

Feeling the heat of your skin.

Now there are only words between us.

Fewer words and fewer each day.

Yet you greet me

Now in the distance you send me those few words,

Words I asked for.

And I am sad.

Longing for a past, missing your touch,

Angry at your distance.

And still I love you.

More than I ever did once.

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