The Quiet Between Us Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGD HIFJKLH GMMHNOP IQRGSTU VIMWHFX YZA2LB2C2| My dear wife | A |
| I have tried to be enough | B |
| to fill the space between your sighs | C |
| with something other than failure | D |
| But each word I spoke | E |
| fell short of the man you needed | F |
| and your silence | G |
| became my mirror | D |
| - | |
| You stopped reaching for me | H |
| long before I let go | I |
| I saw it in the way your eyes drifted | F |
| past my face | J |
| through my voice | K |
| as though searching for the man | L |
| I once pretended to be | H |
| - | |
| Forgive me for mistaking your patience | G |
| for love enduring | M |
| Forgive me for believing | M |
| that trying was the same as being worthy | H |
| The truth is | N |
| you taught me what love costs | O |
| and I could not afford its weight | P |
| - | |
| The boys will grow | I |
| and I pray they inherit your strength | Q |
| not my weakness | R |
| Tell them I was proud once | G |
| a father a husband | S |
| until I became the ghost | T |
| haunting my own home | U |
| - | |
| You will go on | V |
| and the world will not slow | I |
| for the sound of my leaving | M |
| Do not grieve me long | W |
| just remember me | H |
| as the noise that faded | F |
| when the quiet became too much to bear | X |
| - | |
| I wish I could have been your peace | Y |
| Instead I was your lesson | Z |
| in how even love | A2 |
| can break a man | L |
| who wanted nothing more | B2 |
| than to make you smile | C2 |
Christopher Weimer
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