But I Couldn'T Do It By Myself Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Oh I saw the ghost
lurking in your eyes
haunting you
with its grief

a waterfall
between the world & yourself.
I kissed your eyelids
& all the lost silences.

Oh I saw the ghost
hiding in your eyes
cradling its brokeness
a mirror
between the world & yourself.

I kissed your lips
and all that could not be said.
Sometimes the ghost would leave
but only hide
in the sunlight & leaves

before returning to
the empty rooms
of your eyes.
Oh I saw the ghost
looking out of your eyes

offering nothing
but itself
the tears you cry
always this pain
between the world & yourself.
I kissed your tears
thinking I...
...but I couldn't!
The ghost laughs
...you cry,