Love Poem: A Tender Wound

A Tender Wound

I stand here by the ocean, heart in hand
          A tender place that you and I made ours
                    To foster it from that which time devours
                              And put to rest what I don't understand

Oh all those years ago we claimed this spot
          Enwrapped in towels, hidden in the dunes
                    We whispered to each other, steamy runes
                              Our arms and legs entwined in sexy knots

So many summer eves would end that way
          Still lost in our own lust 'til sun was down
                    And diving deep our passion 'til we'd drown
                              In waves of moonlight, 'neath the Milky Way

Such times were but a fraction of our love
          Two souls so joined that we were one inside
                    A glaring joy and bond we could not hide
                              And perfect, faithful match of hand and glove

Yet now I stand here, gazing 'cross the years
          Regretting how we slowly changed our ways
                    In how our absent hours had turned to days
                              And days, melted to months and drying tears

I vowed that I would take much greater pains 
          In crossing o'er time's widening divide ...
                    Until your letter reached me, and inside
                              The words you used to open up my veins ...

You could've said goodbye and not been cruel
          But even that is not the grandest crime ...
                    The bitter draught to swallow, all this time
                              Is that, despite it ALL, I'm ... still ... your ...

Fool.




~ 4th Place ~  in the "Twin Flame Separation" Poetry Contest, Madison Demetros, Sponsor.

~ 2nd Place ~  in the "Tarnished Reflections" Poetry Contest, John Lawless, Sponsor.

~ 7th Place ~  in the "Best Rhyming Poem In March" Poetry Contest, Laura Loo, Sponsor.