Jogger's Love Story

His eyes fell onto the paper belonging to
The woman whose heart he desired so much
Has stopped beating long ago.

He could imagine
As her pen wrote
Dodging the puddles of tears
That fell on her paper like rain drops
In spring:

....If not for the burn in my lungs
While we ran, perhaps then I would have said it.
As if it were warning me, to hold my tongue,
Save my breath

for myself and my own strength...

….The ground is cold but I must lay in it
As the fall leaf does,
To give itself up to the soil.
I must do the same, a sacrifice
Already chosen for me

...It was never my plan.
To meet you

Through blurry eyes, as I jogged
Hard to escape the growth.
I never meant to see...

But there you were.
Your steps beside me, steadying
My heartbeat
As if to be strong for me
When my own strength
Fell, you paced yourself
To my weakening steps.

… As if your love was unconditional
It was you who was strong for me
When I could no longer be strong for myself
Even when your love was thought
unrequited, your hand still rested
in mine, still sending surges through
my hollow body.

And now our positions are switched
you are the weak one,
But from mourning.
So now it is time I gave you strength
For I saved my last bit for you.