LOST LOVE

Finding Lost Love,
on dusty old shelves,
bespectacled
quiet afternoons,
book-marked,
kept away!

Lost love, a grim-faced child,
walking away,
sleepily,
from wrinkled bedsheets
and upturned quilts!
Disowned, chucked-out!
in mistrust.

Lost love, a teary-eyed lover,
left standing behind,
doors slammed shut,
words flung backwards!
in insinuation.

Lost love, the careless strokes
of ungenerous pursuit!
Hard bristles of inquisition
abrading the fine linen of faith!
in intrigue.

Lost love, a rebellious teen,
raging indignant,
like an abandoned camp-fire,
on a stormy night;
blazing,
in betrayal.

Lost love,
an old wrecked barge,
jostled onto the shore
by receding tides ..
in dismissal.

Lost love, the pages of a calendar
flipped backwards, in vain!
Lines of an old song,
long forgotten,
remembered,
in penance ..

Dear love,
Called back upon!
allured! enticed!
invoked! implored!
The familiar fragarnce
of tender tea leaves,
brewing amber-gold ..

Finding Lost love,
losing oneself,
in dispensation.