Calling Into The Void

Sometimes we hurt someone simply because we lack the awareness that we have that power.

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I called your name into the void.

I reached out to touch your hand.

The thought that I wouldn't connect with you

Had never shadowed my plan. 

But there was never an answer from you

You didn’t acknowledge my cry.

Somehow, I should have expected this.

Though, I cannot remember why.

Did I do something to make you forsake me?

Did I desert you or hurt you or lie?

Could I have been so absorbed with myself

That I turned my back on your cry?

I know I sometimes behave recklessly

And that sometimes I appear quite obtuse.

My fear has a way of disguising me

My defenses of inflicting abuse.

But I never thought I had the significance

To wound you or cause you pain.

I could never have felt that powerful

Could never have been that vain.

Only now does it really occur to me;

You have feelings I might have destroyed.

But too late to alter the emptiness 

Of calling into the void.

By Linda Troxell

From: United States

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