Love Poem: Footmarks of Lost Love
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Written by: Michelo Mweetwa

Footmarks of Lost Love

I have watched winds fade away, her foot marks in the sand
Watched, as the sight of her got swallowed in a distance
Her last words still echo like a loud whisper in my mind
Last words whose meaning is difficult to find

“Good” and “bye” should never bond
It’s full of bad, its sound and its tone
Kisses and hugs are for a moment
But their absence is a great torment

Love craves for a lifetime and beyond 
Love prays for a lifetime till all recitations are gone
Good and bye cannot be friends
There is no good which means an end

Apart and away, who will watch me like her eyes did 
Apart and away, who will touch me like her hands did
Apart and away, who will call me like her voice did
Apart and away, who will know me like mind did 

Tides of tears flow in the cracks of my heart
Memories and fears fill up the emptiness inside 
Promises and dreams are like a dim light
Suffocated like loneliness in the darkest night

Building inside me were melodies and words
That shot out and diffused in the air
They floated around, lost like flightless birds 
They search for flowers and found them nowhere

Surrounding me are walls with no photogragh to hang on
An audience to a show without an act or a song
A stroll without a companion
A call with no ears to fall on

Tracks of love, tracks of her
Tracks of love, marks of her
Foot marks of love, is all I see when I stare
Foot marks of love, that lead me to nowhere