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# The Sounds of Freezing Rain
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/the-sounds-of-freezing-rain/
- Published: 2016-10-13T02:20:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-06T17:55:09.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Romance, #Conflict and Reckoning

I don't care if you are beautiful,  
I am done with you  
  
I don't care that I love you  
  
I don't care about our past,  
I don't care about our future  
  
because love was meant to last  
  
I don't care for your intentions,  
I don't care for your mistakes;  
I don't care for our desires  
  
This must end before I break  
  
I don't mean it for a minute,  
I don't mean it for a year  
  
I mean:  
  
I can't bear this feeling  
of you calling me your "Dear"  
  
while you test that my heart beats  
for you through the test of time  
  
while you promise me your friendship  
when devotion is but mine  
  
I don't want to hear your sweet voice  
  
I don't want to read your words  
  
and should you chance upon me  
  
please don't ask that I abjure  
either love or firm abstinence  
  
for my heart and mind must heal  
  
I have chosen life without you  
'til your heart you will reveal  
  
Without love, there's no friendship  
without friendship is no love  
possible between two people who  
  
may swear to skies above  
that they are true, that they love,  
that they care for one another purely  
  
and yet, wish for something different...  
  
as when you ask me to demurely  
sit, or walk, or feel for you,  
abnegating all my soul,  
deprecating all I value  
and then, playfully, cajole  
  
me into bearing, yet again,  
my heart  
  
such is neither kind nor true  
  
I don't care that you are beautiful  
  
I must be done with you