Still


All I ever asked was
    Are you lonely?
Is there any way of
    Helping you?
So you found
    Some motive for my
Helpfulness:
   I loved you; yes
  Ah yes, how very true.

Am I such a fool?
    Are all men fools?
Is it the ego,
    Id, or yang or yin,
So to desire
    Something that's denied us
Having had no
   Hope of
  Any such thing?

As if one autumn
    Afternoon at sunset
In a forest far from
    Human view
Suddenly the birds
    Should all fall silent, and
Half hoping still
   I'd turn
  And look for you.
Sweeney Jim poems
James Munro