Offerings
I don’t offer you a glance
Not a turn of my head or eyes
In your direction, because it’s your direction.
I don’t offer you my opinion
Because I would waste the effort
To explain what you would not care to understand.
I don’t off you any thought
Because that would involve my heart
And it hides at the very thought of you.
I don’t offer you my time
As it has become so clear to me
That it is the only thing I really have left that is mine.
I don’t offer you what you expect
Because what you expect is the world
When all that is left are shadows and distortions.
And I offer this explanation
With no hope of your acknowledgement
Or acceptance, because it is offered for my sake
Not yours.