When night fell on that day I went away <br />I thought of you, you'd be at home and cook, <br />and later do the dishes and take in a tray <br />of tea and snacks, perhaps you'd read a favourite book. <br />So little wisdom, ignorant of what was true, <br />Today I know how much I needed you. <br /> <br />The years were kind to us, we did the usual things, <br />and often worried over pettiness and crime. <br />And now and then we'd wonder what the future brings <br />if one is marching with the crowd to kill the time. <br />The day I watched those children playing peekaboo <br />I felt it deeply in my heart, I needed you. <br /> <br />The gods had plans, it keeps them highly entertained, <br />they place us humans like the figures in a game, <br />we only fake the sense of freedom, to be unrestrained <br />but few would run with wolves that are not tame. <br />Combining H with C in chemistry to make a potent brew <br />reminded me again, how much I've always needed you. <br /> <br />At sunset little thoughts of great importance sometimes fly, <br />like birds they have a perfect instinct, slowly they home in <br />where softly, violins still play their never-ending 'Why', <br />where thoughtful fingers stroke in love their velvet skin <br />as if to give their promise: what shall be shall be, <br />where lips may whisper softly, that you needed me.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-needed-you-5/
