Byron W Lacy, You spoke to my heart

I don't know Byron W Lacy although he is now my Facebook friend.  When my friend Susan came to Tech, she had gone to a JUCO in Athens, TX  (forgive me for not knowing the name) and she had gone to school with Byron and she had a book that had poems in it and I wrote them in my 'Nothing Book' back in 1976.  I wanted to put them on this blog but wanted  Byron's permission and he generously gave it to me.  So with the full knowledge and notice that he retains full copyrights and ownership here are the 2 poems I copied all those years ago:

Something Good

There were times

When I would rather

Have slept forever.

I saw you

In dreams then

And that was better

Than not seeing 

You at all.

I took to leaving

The alarm clock

In the kitchen, unset,

Where I couldn't 

Even hear it's ticking 

And moved my bed

Where the sun

On slipping through

The uncurtained window

Would not catch me

Sleeping.

I guess something good

Has come out of

Your not needing me

As much as i need you.

I give the cat more attention

And she's happy;

I neglected her

Far too much before.

***

The Soft Goodbye

If you had really cared for me,

You would have told me

That someday you wouldn't.

***

Thanks Byron.  Thank you for touching my young heart now and my old heart now.  Thanks for letting me publish these poems.