Collected Love Poems. Brian Patten

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       Tonight I Will Not Bother You

      Tonight I will not bother you with telephones

      Or voices speaking their cold and regular lines;

      I’ll write no more notes in crowded living rooms

      Saying what and how much has changed,

      But fall instead to silence and things known.

      When through exhaustion you scream, throw up

      Sorrow that’s become a physical pain,

      I’ll not try and comfort you with words

      That add little but darkness to ourselves

      But with the body speak, its senses known.

      There is no frantic hurry to love

      Or press on another one’s own dream.

      This much I know has changed,

      What was once wild is calmed,

      And quieter now behind the brain

      May throw more light on things;

      And what starved for love survives

      Whatever shadow it hunted down.

      Taking what love comes makes

      All that comes much easier;

      Something buried deep selects what our shapes need;

      The smaller habits it allows to breathe then fade,

      Leaving the centre clean.

      Tonight I will not bother you with excuses.

      If owning separate worlds means pain

      Comes more easily, and hurt

      Remains a common part of us,

      The silence is best; it will allow

      All doubts to strip themselves.

      Then whatever’s seen will surely

      Be seen in its own light,

      And whatever is wanted be wanted

      For more than wanting’s sake.