Love: Exit Stage Left (originally written 3-29-2012)

 The curtain closes.

Clapping hands turn bright red.

Wolf whistles echo from the balcony.

The audience screams out, "More! More !"

 

And as I look up to give it, I realize that there was none left.

It had left me when it needed me most, and I reacted by turning my back.

Love, oh sweet love, I never thought you would leave me.

My hands lied empty, aching for you to fill the spaces between my fingers.

My lips hot, burning for a cool kiss from those velvet lips.

My heart now broken, shattered in front of me , marked with our initials.

 

I cannot help but to remember that day you & I crossed paths.

Neither of us had known what we would grow up to be.

We were shy at first, then soon became friends.

Laughing and cracking cheesy jokes until day's end.

Then , on a whim one day, my heart flipped its switch.

 

Suddenly, this cloud of passion occluded my sight

and all that could seem to break it was you.

My body had palpitated when you came near my face.

The heavens soon parted the moment that we kissed.

and once we released, joy swelled up like a balloon inside my heart

until it busted and overflowed into my ocean.

I then knew that I had fallen madly in love with you, babe.

 

Now, as time passes,

all I have are the "used to be's" and the "I wishes".

Still troubling to accept that what changed my world so quickly,

I am no longer entitled to keep.