FREE VERSE Poem: Apology, by Anthony Mattison

The decision was not mine to make,
but I committed anyway.
Blistering heat cooked my senses.
It was my mistake.
(watching as night became day)
The sudden rush left me defenseless.

When night has fallen, we’ll find me at your step.
When the crackling fire has given way
(and the cooled embers lay) beneath me,
I will (I do) long to change the words I said into a secret I kept,
but that’s impossible. I can’t take back the things I say,
and your open wound (I created) is all too plain to see.

I beg you: Let me make it right!
But (like wind to a mountain)
I can’t make you budge.
The chance I deserve is the dimmest light,
the smallest stain,
a desperate lunge.

The fire I once knew to ignite your eyes for me
has given way to the blackest midnight chill
like summer days give way to autumn nights.

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