Volume 2 , Number 10
October , 1997
Matter
by Dean Shutt
it used to be so simple
back before love before youa few words on paper
a bit of literary magic and how they would swoonit is so very easy
to write of love when you've none in your heartit's so very simple
to speak of love when you have none in your heartthen came you
the magic went away the words disappearedI LOVE YOU
if only words would do if only i could sayhow can you tell someone
all that they mean the place that they holdif i must throw away all that i care for
to keep your love i would do so gladlyyou have changed me so
without you i would be someone altogether differentif you leave
the man you have known will be destroyed and replacedperhaps better
perhaps worse
unknown
he will remember though
he will know in his soul he has loved he was loved and it mattered