The Hidden Face

The hidden face –

of sorrow
sadness
pain and
longing

Her sunken eyes –

buried beneath a weight so heavy
the pain cannot be told
cannot be named

Nor measured out –

except in tears
of darkest hue

This hidden face -- accuses YOU

You were not there
When she did call
And no one ever came at all

No one knew the woes she bore
Nor did they see the wounds so sore

The wounds are hidden in her soul
her hidden face
her eyes, her gaze

They pierce my heart with guilt and shame
I bear the sorrow that they name

She tried to give this face to me
But then her beauty she did see
And anger too, for fear that I
Would miss the pain that made her cry

And so I wrote this poem to
be sure she knew

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