Friday, February 6, 2015

To Absent Friends

It wasn't fair.

It isn't fair.

The same name?

The same sweet sense of beauty?

...the secretly hated...

My love for you was pure and simple;
My adoration of you, platonic, from the heart.
I required nothing from you,
Save you be yourself as if it were your art.

You both could sing--
And now sing with Angels.
You both could laugh--
But you're silent now.
Both so handsome, so loving,
        So alone....

One of you left with unfinished business,
Ripped from the world in speculations
   of hatred, vengeance, and sin.
It was just a violent reaction to the loss of
A beautiful creature.

We had our differences.
The rumors will never cease.
I hope you realize now, that then
I was not the savage beast.

I would have moved heaven and earth
    if you would have given me one more
          kind word...

The other of you....
My friend.  My darling friend....
Where was I in your darkest hour?!
I was too far...
Too far from you...
Too far to save you from....

Humans are cruel, uncaring creatures,
Fear that which they cannot understand.
I miss you, greatly, after fourteen years.
To know, and yet not, the reasons for your loss
Still hurts me.

Two lovely men, pulled from the clutches
Of this mortal coil.
Two lovely voices...
......Silenced......