The Love Of My Life

there was a landscape
of sadness to
scale..

a vast field of apparent
unending memories kept
playing like a movie
i needed to forget;

why did you do this?
what have you become -
a horror i find
surprising.

there was once a heart,
a heartbeat, a streak of
red..

but now i only see the
spoils of our constant
unhappiness, our unfortunate
disharmony.

the blood that you drew
from the throbbing of my
spurned love
must be washing your cold feet

while i'm sitting here
writhing in the vicious clutches
of thoughts, love and flashs of
memory replaying.

i wish you would one day
realize what i mean to you,
i hope love's simple truth
will clear your maligned heart -

i will be there
no matter what.

at that time,
i pray that your tears don't
break from your eyes,
but slip down the sides of your
tired, confused
heart.