Have No Fear

So truly I said the words
But you did not know
How without guile or deception
I gave you all my heart.

It is only this: that
You were still afraid
Still mourning your girl
Who years ago was taken

Violently she was swept out
Of your hands your arms your
Life; it never goes away
The wishing it were a dream

I dream, too. My dreams are
Different from yours but still
Loss pours out while I sleep.
I hold your memory dear

In spite of the words you
Hurled to hurt me, a broken
Memory lies within your
Lonely English chest and

I can grant you this: enough
Love, enough grace enough
Of who I am, though you may
Never see me or ever even know

That I took your sadness with
Tender gentleness and mercy
And I wrapped it as a mother wraps
Her little one, with love, with loss.