Poem 3

This poem I am embarrassed to post, mostly because I was trying to be serious with it so it feels like more of a risk exposing others to it. Also, it is in mixed meter and doesn't rhyme so I don't like it that much, but it shows a little of my feelings toward my then-betrothed. I wrote this at BYU when Alison and I were engaged. No mocking, please. :)

I saw two lovers on the grass,
And I watched them as they gazed
Into each other's eyes. A sigh
Escaped them, a breath of contentedness
That betrayed their hearts
Even as they said nothing.

I felt inside my own heart
A longing to see you, to share with you
That same communication, to see
A light, a spark that lives
Because of a fire that burns
Somewhere inside of you.

The two - the one - never saw
My eyes and my envy, oblivious to all
Except their own gaze and their own hearts.
I walked away, my eyes upon new things
Other things
But my heart alone with you, upon the grass.