Why Couldn't I See?

The following poem is the brother poem to 'Why Couldn't He See?' This poem is the same story from the husbands point of view. It doesn't matter which one you read first, but you should read both of them if you are going to read one.

She looks at me

Through the window of her car

As she turns the key

I know she won’t go far.

She starts to drive

Down the narrow, dirt road

I know that forever

She can’t leave our humble abode.

She keeps on driving

Picking up speed

I know that soon she’ll remember

It’s me that she needs.

She takes the left turn

Not slowing down

I know without me

All she’ll do is frown.

She steps on the brakes

Her lights turn red

I know she just realized

Without me she’s dead.

She opens her door

And jerks off her ring

I know she’ll come back

If just to hear me sing.

She looks at that band

Then throws it at me

And she says,

‘Oh why didn’t you see?’

‘I would have loved you forever

If you would have only been true’

‘I would have loved you forever

If you would have only loved me too’

She got back in her car

Pulling further away

Echoing in my head

Were the words she did say.

She kept on driving

‘Til she was out of sight

I now know why

She took this sudden flight.

She didn’t know that I loved her

And how could she

When it wasn’t really her

That every night I did see.

I walked over to the shed

And opened the door

Listening to the mice

Pattering on the floor

I walk to the corner

Picking up a thick rope

I throw one end up in the rafters

Then take off my coat.

I tie a good knot

As a good boy scout would

Then I pull the table over

As close as I could.

I think back to her words

Still ringing in my head.

And I finally realize

Without her I am dead.

I climb up on the table

Looking up toward the loft

I put the rope around my neck

And then… I jump off.