Today I cannot love, today <br />there is a wall that’s built, I see <br />and toss a brick myself. <br />One atop and mortar it. <br /> <br />Today I cannot love, today <br />the wind is strong and blowing me <br />away, the birds are flying backwards. <br />Forth and back, I follow them, <br /> <br />and standing, still not moving here <br />or there. No movement even <br />had I wanted to, it’s here <br />I see you walking towards me. <br /> <br />Today I cannot love, today <br />it’s battlegrounds and blood <br />and words and bullets <br />circling the heart. <br /> <br />In one of us the ears <br />sit crying in the corner. <br />The other lost his tongue; <br />it killed itself in spite <br /> <br />But I am sure the moon has asked <br />to leave the world and go off <br />to be its own, but what my love <br />would night be like without a moon.<br /><br />Ben Paynter<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-love-you-most-when-i-do-not/
