I loved you
once in silence
And misery was all I knew
Trying so to keep my love
from showing
All the while not knowing
you loved me too
Yes, loved me,
in lonesome silence
Your heart filled with
dark despair
Thinking love would flame
in you forever
And I’d never, never know
the flame was there
Then one day we cast away
our secret longing
The raging tide we held
Inside would hold no more
The silence – at last was broken! –
We flung wide our prison
door
Every joyous word of love
was spoken
And now there’s twice as
much grief
Twice the strain for us;
Twice the despair,
Twice the pain for us
As we had known before
Uncle Charlie
Copied by Steve Haarman
November 30, 2022, ^
Steve Haarman 