Ruins

I lay in ruins

eyes bowed to you

like a God.

My God,

what did I do?

My hand outstretched

through lifeless air.

Breathless hope

I hold

beneath your stare.

Will you forgive

what I have maimed?

Words, like time,

once gone

can’t be reclaimed.

My heart like yours

bleeds love so true

let’s get back

to us

to me and you?

*

by Cheri Roberts