Elegiac Romance

 

Bittersweet days of elegiac romance

Barren branches lit by sunset epilogue

Front porch memories settling like leaves

On lawn haunted by love

Where she sat in pecan heaven

Gathering nuts like pieces of joy

                                  

My heart filled with sparkling water

Drinking in her happiness

Each sip of her smile

Igniting the palate of my emotions

With sweet sassafras endearment

 

Winter mint chill

Of her distant life

Felt like cardiac arrest

When the mind sinks deep

Through layers of sorrow

Weary dreams of sleep

Elusive as comets

In the night sky