These paltry lines cannot bring you back <br />Into the halo of this street lamp outside my door; <br />I thought I had words but even they <br />Slipped from my grasp and went away. <br /> <br />I thought I had words but even they <br />Could not make you stay. I asked the earth <br />To still my heartbeat and then say <br />If your shadow fell across my hearth. <br /> <br />I was a paltry poet with paltry lines; <br />I was a paltry poet with simple rhymes <br />I was a bard, a dreamer looking for signs. <br /> <br />Nothing did I have; my only lifeline <br />Was this: rhyming these paltry lines; <br />Words, words that I tried to align <br />Into a kind of poem that kind of shines. <br /> <br />Copyright: Rani Turton<br /><br />Rani Turton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/these-paltry-lines/
