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Lover of the Gods
As the neon lights of the night sky glow,
His eyes hidden and piercingly mean
I love only him, though the soul burns cold
And for a minute I see through his sheen
Though I may never meet his face again
My loneliness had no loose ends
His beauty painted a canvas of gold and blue
Imploring me to applaud the lovely artist
But Hestia’s watch didn’t flee her beloved statue
Endearment soon came faltering in full harvest
As we fed off the plates of affinity and soul
His ecstacy and allure was to my head: control
Days we spent in showers of a rosy haze
With words and kiss Florida-orange sweet
There I was, lured into his enchanting daze
Playing his siren’s song on repeat
‘Back to black’ he said one blazing noon
Then stole me beneath a summer moon
In the midst of him I felt only blind love
A passion burning ethereal starlight
Our heaving bodies brought to heaven above
With the intent of angels through dawn to black night
Together we watched our souls disappear in a glance
And praised to Venus by beauty’s dance
The forlorn day transpired to say goodbye
When rosy cheeks turned into quivering lips
Puddles of lust and sorrow welled in our eyes
As he clasped with vigor onto my youthful hips
We breathed the same life under the same celestial yonder
With a million forbidden ‘I love you’s’ left ponder
His ocean eyes caught mine as I stood to go
Wicked regret was true and ghastly raging
Ice killed passion and my heart began to snow
With flurries engulfing the match once worth saving
Young and vexed, salad day romance turned dark
Never to brighten from the moment he’d depart
Days flowed steady through a somber river
The bittersweet half of me thriving someplace else
A winter’s deathly pulse my new caregiver
Hypnos willed me to sleep away pain with his melts
And away pain went, tears vacated and sought home
Down in another lonely heart all on her own
I scaled the mountain of life with virtue so clear
His memory but one jewel on a necklace
Found fiery lovers sharing my epic sphere
Adding a fountain of romance to my nexus
Until one gloomy day I met him on the street
After years, my flower still bloomed at his feet
The wintry caverns thawed in my fragile heart
When the ocean waves of his eyes resumed their laps
Years chiseled fine lines into his body of art
Leaving pieces of me to fill in the gaps
For minutes we stood in mezmering silence
The shock of each other, grown and new, almost violent
We put out our shaking hands to reach each other
But the years of hurt emerged like a charged wall
The taunting licks of his red flame were smothered
And I turned away from him, fleeting the fall
With one harrowing glance, our old strings snapped
The eternal candle’s heavenly flame capped
In this velvet dusk I bathe in pleasant sorrow
A coral disk setting over my river palace
Though loves of yesterday have been lost for tomorrow
My heart will never fret with brimming malice
He came, he went, but I stayed
The gold interior of mine I will never trade
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There are some people I wish to meet on the street again one day, to see how life changed them and who they are now. To feel the distance and stretch from years ago of the love we once had but miss now.
This poem describes that process, the heartbreak, the lust and love. Enjoy.