AWE

AWE
“everything he ever wanted” Eminem

a wisp of a man
almost helped me drown
always
putting
me down

when I arrived
back from
the dead unfortunately
back from near tragedy
not a word passed

but then a look
that spelled
it out
told me everything

and that is the pain
that rendered me tongue-
tied, immobile, useless
so very
very incomplete

failing you
at every turn

what a poor comparison
it makes, these sheaves of
dead-end poems,
set against
the harvest
of your life

real, meaningful achievements
leaving me in awe