Two Poems

ISOLATION

I cannot speak to you
For while you hear my words
Meaning finds no entry.

I cannot learn from you
For while your soul burns
Light finds no exit.

I cannot be with you
For while you do no injury
Happiness finds no nourishment.

RESIGNATION

Your heart
A glass forest
Enchanting.

I move
Breaking boughs
Stumbling,
A blizzard of shards.

Not belonging,
I must, I know,
Bind my wounds
And go.