Because

I loved you

Though in silence feelings diminished in time

Lovingly they stayed for awhile

Your apparition has faded from my sight

I loved you

Albeit for a misfortunate stake in vanity

You claimed you never asked it of me

Sketches of haze overcast by doubts and worry

Because you asked me to

I was misguided by miserly soothsayers 

And how once the love we made

Gave way to states of such abyssmal abyss

I let you go

Because you said to

And that love was letting go

So I felt this tortured need to 

It was because you asked me to

That I dwelt with phantasms' past

And held the soft touch of your face 

without a kiss nor yielding embrace

Although you asked me to

I never wanted any mysteries to prove

Not to you nor to the world

Just how much I loved you

-Iliana Mercedes Tersy