Knock knock...

You may not understand one bit of what I'm trying to say. Make not the effort...
Dressed in your best
Did you knock at my door?
Did you wait for me to open the door,
Let you in,
Talk to you about the weather,
Offer you some tea or coffee?
Knock knock...
Did your heart skip a beat
As you waited...
Till what seemed an eternity?
Did you look at the peep hole,
Wondering if I was at the moment peeping through?
Knock knock...
Did the sound clang at your soul
With flaming thoughts of both hope and despair?
As you rubbed your cold fingertips
Against your chin?
Knock knock...
Endangered dreams whispering
In a muffled voice,
A strangled tone,
A lost abandon,
"Will the knock be answered?"
Knock knock...
Did you know, as you stood there,
Waiting, anticipating, expecting...
Behind the locked doors,
The delicate hand that gripped the handle
Was bleeding?
Knock knock...
Lifeless, limp and icy
Unable to answer the call she waited for
All her life.
Knock knock...