One last second is all that I ask <br />Albeit the years have passed like the <br />swarms and flocks and schools and tribes <br />in numbers as great as the pain I have. <br /> <br />I perceived you true. How could such a smile, <br />with warmth and care challenging the flaming <br />sun, felt it to me like summer in wintery times, <br />not be the break of dawn in my darkest mile? <br /> <br />I held you once and would not let go, <br />not the safer waters, the fountains thereof <br />not the feelings, the hope, the love <br />not the care your eyes did show. <br /> <br />I stared for hours into your heart <br />and for the life of me could not tear my gaze, <br />I saw beauty were you saw null, this valley called You <br />had never shown me that we would part? <br /> <br />What hides your being, the truths of your love; <br />unmovable mountains of the pain of the past, <br />they cast shadows where light is long over-due <br />these ragged razor peaks of icy winds above. <br /> <br />I care not if there is fire, nor death, nor needles, nor snow <br />If I can't move these mountains, I'll climb forever. <br />My limbs might rot, my bones lay the land white, <br />my heart shall stay true, to you it'll go. <br /> <br />For now I hide it all, my heart it wears a mask. <br />I know a day would come one day <br />when every second I would not have to say <br />that one last second is all that I ask.<br /><br />Elbert Matt Loubser<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-last-second/
