WORDLESSLY

 I Can't Make You Love Me

Wordlessly

Wordlessly, I speak volumes
To the deafness of your heart
I tell you how I miss you
Whenever we're apart.

Wordlessly, I try to say
The things your ears won't hear
My eyes cry out my love for you
Whenever you come near.

Wordlessly, my sad soul begs
For the love you cannot give
For you no longer care for me
Or if I die or live.

Wordlessly, I sing a song
That I wrote just for you
And your lips tell me I'm lying
When every word is true.

Wordlessly, I'm breaking
Like a stem holding a heavy flower
I try to hold my head up high
But my heart can only cower.

Wordlessly, I breathe your name
And bare my needy flesh
Seduction that always worked before
Works no more now, I guess.

Wordlessly, I scream out my pain
To ears that do not care
Ears that used to love my words
Ears no longer listening there.

Wordlessly, I bow my knees
And beg your love to stay
But you look down in your disdain
And kick my love away.

Wordlessly, upon the ground
I lay in hopeless woe
My eyes full of such bitter tears,
I watch you turn and go.

But before you leave, you say to me
Words I can't believe are true
Don't waste your time, girl, grieving me
I never did love you.

Then wordlessly, you close the door
On all our love and life
You never were my husband
But I was your faithful wife.

Wordlessly, my life goes on
And I survive it day by day
But the day you left, my mouth fell silent
And doesn't have a word to say.

I cannot write another poem
I cannot compose a song
I cannot say another word
Now that my muse is gone.

You took the sun out of my sky
And stole my joy from me
Now everything I cannot say
My heart says wordlessly.

By Voo
Aug 12, 2019
1:14 p.m.

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FOR LEE LEE***