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Poetry Journal May 13, 2012


 Shakespeare calls it
 the green-eyed monster, 
and it is true.

This insanity of suspicion, 

of looking elsewhere

 at someone else 

and think they're taking her

 away from me

 when in fact, 

she's never truly

 deeply been mine 

in the first place 

except in my imagination,

 and I'm not alone,

 living with this illusion

 even as what ever 

once was possible

 has ceased,

 fading away into that limbo 

where all such illusions go,

 she finding a kinder 

set of ears to listen,

 hands to touch,

 eyes to take her in.

There is no kindness 

in the eyes that start out

 from such a green face,

 and yet, how can I

 not crave it,

 those brief moments

 when her amazing gazes turned 

like the beam of a lonely lighthouse 

 in my direction,

 stirring to life feelings 

I assumed long lost at sea. 

The fact that she 

and her ship has sailed

 only makes the longing worse,

 having lost what I never had.


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