We’d clung to each-other like mortal enemies
Failing to understand it was instinctual survival
Our love stumbled in many cruel ways
Even breathing became a daily struggle
Until it all became- a bridge too far
Too far to see through a sorrowful fog
Or even beyond one more suffering hour
Then came that proverbial road and fork
And our feeble blind ego’s lead us astray
While our heartfelt promises, disintegrating
From everything our love once was
Forever altering our own senseless selves
All that once mattered, now- extinct
I stood alone, my mind and heart, numb
I was a soul gyroscope out of control
My sense of direction, you- noticeably absent
Confusion filled the void of lost understandment
And as a new reality was giving birth
Your fleeting footsteps echoed into silence
The fork and bridge had both long, disappeared
I was reborn into torn collateral subsistence
We’d become a loves magical tragedy
Written by our own or changed choices
Becoming sad and slow vanishing memory
Yet, unexpected things that stick with you
Suddenly arising at most queer of times
I can recall even today, my confusing state
Was the scent of fresh rain on hot blacktop
Even though it hadn’t rained in weeks
Maybe more to perplex us or divine distraction
But still- after all we encountered
Even after all we managed to destroy
I could still be profoundly moved, shattered- really
By your own volition, you chose to go
Upon hearing you’d lost your way, and your life
You found the end of your own destiny
From however happenstances it may have come
Tears overflowed my human eyes
And a part of me quickly felt guilty, self condemned
As if- I hadn’t done enough to save you, now or then
From yourself, from us, from love or times hands
I knew I loved you enough, to let you go
Find a new true love bathed in fresh freedom, hope
Somehow I still thought I overlooked something
When truth is, true love never really…goes
Poet of the Light © 2020
The opening line!!
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Thank you, Mermaid. Great eye! Everything hangs on that line.
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How do you do this? Your words are like music to my ears.
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Thank you. You’re too kind.
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As always, you are welcome.
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