LOVE & LOSS
A SEQUENCE
New Poem J
Like stillness she swept over me
- enveloped
in her care and love
- Before
consciousness apprehended it.
She is my
reminder
Who woke me
from "the buried life".
Intense –
sudden
– the swift cheetah overtook me
Mea Puella –
Cor Cordium…..
Thoughts on Love
Come tell me
of your love
Does he
fulfill your need
Does he
satisfy your inmost desire
- for sweet
content and sharp pleasure.
Is he all to
you - all that you desire
Does he inflame
your heart with strong passion
Is he all to
you so that you will be all to him?
Oh tell me
of your love.
DO YOU FEEL
Do you feel my love -
it is as
warm as the sun on your face and back.
Do you feel
my care -
it is as
fresh and strong as the breeze that cools you.
Do you feel
my desire -
it is as
sharp and salty as the taste of the sea on your lips.
Gain and Loss
Who but you
could capture me so
And in what
rapture then enthrall me
So that I
count all my gain but loss
And see my
life as so much dross
Unless I
yield to your fair prison.
A year
beyond I
So now we may count in years not days or
weeks or months
the measure of our love
Yet still each moment encloses an eternity of
care, tears, laughter, hope and love –
So years then count little as the measure of
our love
For this union is bounded by eternity
and years
are but moments in the measure of our love
On Being
24
Years pass on
Time flows by
But you still - like a phoenix
Rise ever new
Neither time nor years diminish your
Beauty
Your softness
Your love
Your compassion
Your care
Your joy
Are ever new
At twenty four – It is you I adore
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LOSS
A year beyond - II
So now we
may count in years not days or weeks or months
the measure
of your hate
Yet still
each moment encloses an eternity of
lies, tears,
betrayal, despair and loss –
So years
then count as little as a measure of our former lives
For this
union is bounded by your faithless betrayal
and years
are but moments in the measures of your hate
Loneliness of Love
My Love is fulfilling it makes me complete
Without it I am empty and only half a me.
When my Love is with me I am alive and replete
When my Love is not by me I sense a defeat.
She is often too distant and I sense a loss
My heart is adrift in the loneliness of
love.
Space Between
There is a space between us filled by a
shadow
His name is unspoken but his presence is
felt
I fear for his presence - it threatens my
love
I wonder just when that presence will part
us
So then we'll be two and no longer a one.
Delusion or Love
Was it really all delusion when it felt like love?
Did I deceive myself for these three years - a greater fool each year?
Or was it
hidden love not meant to be
- so that at hint of revelation she choose to
flee?
Such ashes now of that conceived, deluded, passion cover my soul.
or is this delusion still?
Would Pilate know the truth - or only jest at my confusion?
Yet the empty heart might tell me truth –
of love once
born - now lost in the confusion of fear.
End of
the Affair
Her words
sounded the truth of all creation - all life
It is conceived,
flourishes then withers and dies.
Nothing
escapes this rigor.
And so for
love - born of a season - in hope of everlasting time.
Fanned by
passion and desire the flame grows ever more intense
But like the
tide it ebbs
Flows out
from the shore of fondness
Till one
time it does not return.
