Callous Indifference

When she called

you turned your back

content with your disgust

your unending anger

for your golden child failed

never rising to the bar you had set

never following the dreams you wrote.

How dare she?

Turned away from the life the you dreamt

from the path you wrote

forging her own way

her own dreams

without a thought to your needs

wants

desires.

Now standing

rain soaked

grey life resides

even though the sun does shine

her light forever gone

the golden child has become no more

does you rigidness offer you cold comfort at night?

Does your disdain hold you close?

Does the righteous anger wipe your tears?

Staring at her name

trembling finger caresses

carved into marble

dates

gone so young

never taking the hand held out

a chance for reconciliation

now gone.

©Aug. 21/22

Where Did We Go?

I no longer know

was it you

was it I

which of us determined

that the love was gone

that we had to go

our separate lives

our own ways

sunset of time

fading away.

I can still hear your voice

lingering in my ear

I can sense your being

nestled in close to me

a haunting memory

one I wish I could rip

tear from my heart

from my mind

replace with cold emptiness.

Little comfort

will ease this ache

that never leaves

a dull pulsing

playing in my heart

on repeat.

Once

we dreamt of a life

entwined

enmeshed

together for all eternity

our past and future lives

reaching out

souls forever seeking.

Good bye

with etched remorse

I sever these memories

I blanket the dreams

placed deep in crypt

never again to be seen.

©Aug. 20/22

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