My long-lost love is a poem about lost love which will warm your heart or make you cry
To My Long-Lost Love - A Love Poem
I keep a treasure chest under my bed,
Occasionally crack its rusty lock
to reveal bundles of epistles from yesteryear;
before the winds of separation tore a rift so wide.
My mind feeds
and my heart bleeds
for nothing supersedes
memories of your deeds
And
The sound of your footsteps,
as you scampered along the corridors.
Warmth floods my skin
at the thought of your surreptitious hand,
as you slid a note into my pocket
I also remember
the sound of your unassuming voice,
as you mouthed your daily greeting
and the look in your eyes,
that glittery look that finally jolted my heart into submission.
Something about the words etched on the earthy pages,
reminds me of our first heady kiss beneath the tree,
on that sweltering summer’s day,
when due to sudden terror, I warned you about prying eyes
It’s not as if we had no business falling in love
The world could hang for all I cared
What we’d planted could never be uprooted,
Love that survived weeks of separation,
That time when you had to nurse your dying mother
not to mention the green-eyed monster
who fed both you and me some unsavoury truths.
And yet, we plodded along,
dodging every peril like soldiers in the Gulf War.
We had glorious plans to sheath our minds
Plans for our future,
And it was not long before calamity struck.
You had to leave
Except, this time, your return would be uncertain.
I try my darndest not to blame you for disasters you cannot control
Still, my heart bleeds
and everything in me pleads
For a day to make me whole
Seasons have rolled into decades;
all I have to show are these yellowing sheets.
Tears have dried, and yet the heart still bleeds.
And as I dissect every word, phrase, and sentence wreathed with the promise -
I shall return; I will marry you someday.
I exhale a huge breath,
A breath of exasperation.
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