Only Heartache (+1)

She is gone…

swiftly, silently,

like the fading light

 

Settling into

my memory

like a thousand yesterdays

 

Taking what I

would never give,

leaving only heartache

 

Crossing love’s

forbidden line

—never to return

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)

 

 

Memory Lost

 

The narrow hall of mourning

pathway to my grief

Darkened by each memory lost

—there in stark relief

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)