Kevin Boyle
You do not know my pain
It’s been building, scarring me.
I cannot stop it, never ending
My pain felt with deep sorrow.
She’ll never know my pain
Or why I have it, she is part of it.
I cannot face her, fear grips me
My emotion never expressed, held within.
I have a life of pain, just of her
She cannot think of why I hurt.
She, so perfect, eyes and voice
Her smile stops me in my tracks.
I tense as she passes me, my mind gone
I am left a vessel, watching only her.
Yet I will do nothing, ever
I fear the moment when we speak.
My heart races as it happens
My head grows light, painful.
Few I trust with these feelings
All help me through this time.
I find her in my dreams
Still unreachable in them.
My heart has gone to her
Mi gràdhaich i.
I walk down a road,
With a party slowly grown.
I do not know them,
Yet we are like old friends.
I am still suspicious,
Yet trust them with my life.
They are so different,
Yet all seem the same.
Our destinations are far apart,
Yet all go to the same place.
No allegiance between us,
Yet all serve like brothers.
I do not know where we go,
Nor when we will arrive.
Yet I will know when I am there,
And they will as well.
We seek varied goals,
Yet all strive for one thing
Though all wish to find it differently,
We will all reach it the same way.
When they find us huddled and tired,
They know we will have won.
And even without saying it,
We know the journey is at an end.
