Sunday, September 29, 2024

the slightest flame (2015)

 

the Russian poet said it best

 the embers of old love

should not cause distress

 not let love became sad  again

 even when we all know

 we cannot still be friends

he like me plagued with jealousy

 that put the stake in the heart

of what might have been Bliss

 but is now lost and left both

 to pay the cost

one cannot renew

 the embers of a fire gone

but this does not stop me

from feeling fond

for what might have been once

and yet never was

the tenderness felt now

after all this time

is not the same flame

it was when first stirred

but not ignited

yet little stirs

the slightest flame


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