adaptations.

This is Just to Say
(William Carlos Williams)

I have eaten
the plums
that were
in the icebox

and which
you were
probably saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

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Adaptations (Mystic Orthodoxy)

I said all the things
you wanted to hear
about being proud,

But mostly they were lies
that I felt compelled
to tell you instead of the truth.

It's not that I don't want
for you to be happy,
but I hate that you'll
leave me here.

-

You'll understand
if I tell you that
I don't feel much anymore.

It's not so much the distance
as it is the emptiness
of the whole routine.

I'd ask for forgiveness
but I'm not sure I'm worth
mercy or grace.