and when I woke up I laughed at myself
thinking about how it would never happen.
I owe you an apology.
I did not see you in the small things.
Yesterday was the hottest day in the city in the last 105 years,
I escaped to the mountains and the sky was so clear
I should have remembered to look for you.
Forgetfulness discredits my promises.
I am in love with a young man who
does not know how to be loved
and I can't teach him.
I tell him he matters and that I won't give him up,
and I choose to love him every new day all over again,
no matter how difficult he makes it sometimes.
I owe you an apology.
I did not see you in the small things.
"If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love."
― George Orwell, 1984
There are many things that touch me in this poem, Kenia. I always love your titles, which are integral to meaning, and the way the speaker holds a conversation to one who may not be listening. I find the Orwell quote to be most profound, but you have equally expressed the pain of unrequited love, have shown what it is to be true to your word.
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