PARDON MADAME

I have read a small book today

with words of beauty and power

that directs me to change my ways,

for now I understand quite clearly

how my brash, uncouth behavior,

no matter how well intended, to

your frail, but beautiful heart, was

but an affront to sad early memories.

Thrilled was I that you would consider

my love for you, for my world turned on you,

with kindness and gracious understanding did you accept,

being totally ignorant of the exquisiteness of your heart

like a bull in a china shop, I forged ahead, no etiquette,

causing you untold grief, pain, just opposite of my intent

chancing, that you my Love, perhaps may close your heart

rejecting any understanding we have made from the start.

That sort of emotional shock would be just and appropriate

were it not for the single compelling fact that I hold you

in the highest esteem, as the brightest shining star in the universe,

my love for you knows no bounds, my heart pleads for your love,

no words sufficient for forgiveness to ask

yet, now my Love, your compassion express

accept as you have, a place for my heart

to love, keep, cherish and nourish, until I part.

Herbert Holzbauer
© June 2006

Midi: "Mimi Rodolpho duett"
(La Boheme)
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Sequencer: Stan Stracy
(www.saturnsoft.net)

Art: "Candlelight"
Artist: Lena Emmertz
www.lenaemmertz.com