ART MUSIC POETRY

The Poetry of Michael Langston


(96) TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

Please forgive me,
my love,
my unseen love,
for being too blind,
too blind to see you.

Please forgive me,
my sweetheart,
for rejecting your love,
for crumpling your heart,
and for casting it away
like a leaf in the wind.

Please forgive me,
my darling,
for not being there with you
and for not even knowing
that you were physically dying,
just as once you were dying
of my cold-hearted callousness...
that I once had the power
to take back and rescind.

Look down on me,
sweet angel,
from the clouds of high heaven,
from where you have flown to,
from the stars and the sun...
look into my heart here
and see that it's breaking
and know that I'm sorry
for what I have done.

Though I will never forgive
myself for such heartlessness,
for hurting you so deeply
like the death of your son,
and though...since you're gone,
I can never be with you
nor undo what's been done,
at least now our poems...
can be here together,
always together,
together as one.


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