Love Poem: Letter To Karin

Letter To Karin

What are those things I do not know
          I've done, to make you hate me so?
               I've searched my mind for most a life
     For what I worked to bring you strife
And as I sift thoughts past, thereof
          Those mem'ries only breathe of love
               The moments, many, spent with you
     Midst yearning's tender rendezvous
Yet, I'm within your heart and head
          The brute you feel were better dead
               I wonder, do you wait those words
     Of my swift passing? And once heard
Will then not come the smallest start
          Of longings, deep within your heart
               For all sweet, tender moments, ours
     The petals of those thornless flowers
That bloomed so many bygone years
          And grew from love, as well as tears
               That you have somehow made a sin
     Oh, how can such crimes ever spin?
The dearest love you've turned awry
          And I've not but the question, why?
               Now, when I leave, my final thought
     Will be, what is this crime I wrought
That took my dearest love from me?
          Oh pray, can you please help me see?
               Can you not spare one crumb this bread
     Before your first true love ... is dead?