I toss I turn

Posted: 10th November 2001 by Jab in Poetry

I lay here awake thinking to myself,

Thinking out loud.

I wonder why … I wonder how.

Sometimes I sit here and sometimes I don’t.

I toss and turn.

Thinking … why so hard?

This tension, burning, desire;

That cannot be fulfilled.

Why?

I can think all night,

I can stay awake.

I want to know why.

Have I seen a sign? Have I loved wrong?

Am I not the person who I though I was?

Am I wrong?

 

I toss I turn.

I am awake thinking … why do I torment myself?

Is it love?

Have I fallen in love?

Fallin in love with a love I cannot have?

Why?

Why then do I love so?

When I cannot share this beautiful feeling,

the longer this emotional extravagant feeling.

Why must I stay alone? Why must I be in the dark?

Why must I cry inside, outside?

Why are you not here with me? Why did you leave me?

I am sorry.

I am sorry I cannot be like him.

I am sorry I cannot hold you … I cannot change your mind.

I will never hurt you. I can never mislead you.

I will never leave you in the cold.

I will be there to warm you.

Why am I still here? You are with the one you love.

But you tell me you love me too.

 

I toss I turn.

I am alone again. So in the cold.

So far away … so alone.

Seeing your smile brings me back.

Seeing him sends me away in a corner,

In a ditch out in the cold.

Looking in.

Can I hold on? Can I?

When you choose to go the other way.

Away you have always known.

Then why should I be so sad, if you are so happy.

Because I know I fill your every desire – you told me.

I know your every touch – you told me.

I know where to go – you told me.

I know where to kiss you – you told me.

I know you love me – you show me.

Yet that does not change the way you feel about him.

You are still with him.

Why?

I ask myself.

You see sad at times with him, you come to me.

I want you to be happy.

 

– I toss I turn