~DEFEATED~

In the end there is only
you. Everything I breathed
my first breath for ends
with you,

and I am defeated.

The golden youth, the gray
between, the black midlife
of my time on earth begins and
ends with you. Time disintegrates
between my fingers and I slip beyond
the boundaries of earth's edges
evolving back to dust,

and I am defeated.

The vines, the roots, the weeds
tell my secrets to the earth and
there is only you, my love, to fill the
void of nothingness as on you kiss
the air to carillons of where everything
you breathed your first breath for is born
with the breath of victory,

and I am defeated.

In the end there is only you, your glance,
your smile, your words I once built my
dreams upon to follow me to where
nothing has my name engraved in its
book of eternity,

and I am defeated.

In the end there is only you, in the laughter
of my human days, in the sunshine of my
memory, there where we live out each
dream I dreamed for you and I before the
power of truth took you away.

In the end there is only you.
You there, me here,

and I am defeated.

© 2003 Karen Davies