I Could Try by Laura Rumsey

I Could Try

by Laura Rumsey

I could try to explain how you

confuse my mind

and mystify my thoughts

I could say in words

what I think I feel

but no one still would know,

to describe your beauty,

your powerful ways,

or to tell how much you are

Would be to trap a whisper

in the wind, would be to cage the sea

You glow, you burn

into my heart

my words could

forever engrave what you are -

with this pencil I hold

that is not you, but

I sit here, looking at you,

thinking, wanting,

that's all