Bart Wolffe - A broken trust.

 My friend Bart writes beautiful poems.

 

Bart Wolffe

 



He also paints, acts, writes plays. He is, in short, a Talent.

Bart Wolffe's Victoria Falls

 

A BROKEN TRUST

Saying goodbye

Doesn’t make sense to dogs;

No way to tell them

Your wife does not love you any more

Or

That you have to leave because of civil war.

(There is a crime in abandoning a dream,

Its end betrayal.)

The death sentence for a canine friend with cancer,

The question “Why?”

Silenced in their eyes

By a lethal injection.

You watch your best friend die.

There is a look of incomprehension,

A stone that is sorrow

Sits heavy in the throat,

Its weight unpronounceable.

(The end of innocence

That moment trust is lost.)

It has happened more than once,

A door closes

And through the fence

You try to touch them one last time

To explain –

But there are no words

So you turn and walk away.

Only a sense of guilt remains.

After all, it was you who gave them familiar names

That you will always remember…

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