Tenderness should never be torn
although you ripped though my letters
as if full of flimsy
Strong bonds are not easily broken
unlike the strings of your guitar
those nights we harmonized
Devotion cannot vanish, all of a sudden
the way you puddle-jumped your way
out of my life that night
With my tears not even hidden
in the rain, mascara run
without your umbrella
I recall how your love kept me
full of hunger, subsisting on thin mouthfuls
from those impetuous feasts
You and I are omitted, lost in the spaces
an in-between of many treasured memories
For Sanaa’s OLN prompt where anything goes as long as it’s poetry. For added inspiration she offered us a quote from Edna St Vincent Millay: “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain.” as well as this Photo: ‘Moody urban night scene with umbrella’ by Josh Hild, Pexels.
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