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Poetry

Surely You’ll Love Again

By

RM

RM writes from Brisbane Correctional Centre in Queensland.

I see the pain in your lost eyes,

And see, all your life ends in cries,

I’ve seen that you’ve been down,

I can tell the way you wear your frown,

You drink late into the morrow,

All that pain, all that sorrow,

A heart stone-cold, you can’t really mend,

Blissful mind, how did it bend?

This wall between you and I,

Can be tricky, to the blind eye,

Surely you’ll love again,

Till then I can only be your friend.

I see the pain in your lost eyes,

And see, all your life ends in cries,

I’ve seen that you’ve been down,

I can tell the way you wear your frown,

You drink late into the morrow,

All that pain, all that sorrow,

A heart stone-cold, you can’t really mend,

Blissful mind, how did it bend?

This wall between you and I,

Can be tricky, to the blind eye,

Surely you’ll love again,

Till then I can only be your friend.

This
piece
was originally printed in the
February 2025
edition of About Time.
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