Love Poem: A Day Scar Drama
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Written by: CayCay Jennings

A Day Scar Drama

Soundly you sleep, your insides at ease.  Beside 
you, I surge an uncharted storm of fearsome break for 
it thunder-threatens my own sun’s velocity melt.  Your 
breathing is even and bears no concern, no fear or 
resentment squeaks to rust your dream’s churn.  All my 
wishes wish it would; I want it to rob you, break your peace 
to pieces, rough up all your pleases and scatter your calm.

Yesterday morn, the same ever alarm was greeted by our dual
yawns.  I poured your coffee, you jellied my toast, we teased 
about who loved the most versus who knotted our bed covers 
tossed.  I heard the garage jerk and bolt, the squeal of reverse 
being forced and grinned that life so ordinary was actually a 
fulfilling choice.

Later I chanced upon blemish, a day scar drama erasers can’t 
touch, time can’t discard or blow into bits a kind wind might 
take far.  Even hours gone, with eyes closed, I cannot look away.
My insides toss green, then turn blue-black.  My heart is cramped 
and crumpled uneven, and my doubt is sure love-innocent trust 
will never come back.

Our longtime love is not mere try or habit or lie, I know you want 
me at your side, so why not a plan more focused to better secret  
your sordid?  Why carelessly litter dramatic change that my feet 
must step around or in?  You sleep unaware of my awake seeped 
with betrayal:
Passionately you kissed another, gifted eye smiles on the street to each other, while I was framed in the window of our local and favorite grocer.