Saturday, June 29, 2024

Words of Love Sept. 15, 2013

What will she do

to get it back

 now that it seems

like it’s already gone,

words of love,

 as the pop song goes,

 soft and tender,

 won’t make it any more

(win a heart back),

 traction in the race

for the heart lost, too,

somewhere along the long trail

 from that sharing of sunlight

to the dark clouds

thinking in her mind,

 her saying, doing, thinking everything possible,

though she has not the right spells

 to cast to make his heart

as soft as I once was,

an affair of the mind

she once called it,

gone for real

when it all became too real,

tamped down to keep it

from erupting in a public (space)

 when she deep down

does these things always in private.

What does she do

when the words run out,

 and she loses her power of persuasion,

 winning him once,

 and yet unable to do so again,

 is his heart that hard?

Or does he simply have

 too much to lose,

chancing, loving her.

 


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