Write a poem, please just one more
Before you leave for distant shores
My heart feels like a lead balloon
My mind dizzy as if to swoon
Walls close in on me
Let your couplets set me free

Write me a poem to lift my spirits
My heart knows no outer limits
Take me places only imagined
Cure my mood heavy and sanguine
Let your rhyme give me life
Take away my heartache and strife

Let your words give me hope
When times are tough and I cannot cope
Promise me everything will be alright
When my heart is silenced by your knife
Let’s walk together hand in hand
Take me to the promise land

Let your poetry transform my soul
Lift me from this deep dark hole
Your words, an aphrodisiac to cleanse
My past transgressions and willful sins
Pour forth your grace for fools like me
Read one more poem before you leave