-- Things You Never Do --

John Herlihy

Let me recall the things that you never do,

All those things undone that I never knew.

Let me offer in return a wildflower bouquet,

Giving voice to sweet emotions I never say.

Never to talk back with any hateful remarks,

Never to inspire anger and its stinging sparks.

Never to leave unsaid what needed to be said,

Never to break open my tender heart ‘til it bled.

Never to force me into a wrongful compromise,

Never to ask me to do a thing that I may despise.

Never to throw me down into the well of despair,

Never to create any situation we could not repair.

Never did you ask to take back any words spoken,

Never to speak any word to leave my heart broken.

But broken it is as a result of your untimely passing;

So many things you will never do, forever amassing.

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(c) John Herlihy 19 October 2019