Love Poem: Lettuce, Lettuce Alone
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Written by: Connie Pachecho

Lettuce, Lettuce Alone

Lettuce, lettuce alone


                                         they both sang sad songs
                                     to each other, about each other
                                 that never meld, but it was all wrong
                              that a duet never had a chance together

                                    there were high and low notes
                                 that echoed from separate canyons
                                        over the trail of lost goats
                                billowing souls crying for companions

                                    words of soul's doom and gloom
                                         displaced milk and cheese
                                      lost were two budding blooms
                                       pollinating in gardens breeze

                                       time stretches aching hearts
                              as the two souls sat on mountains edges
                                    billowing about being further apart
                              with neither soul looking over life's hedges

                                  moon and stars laugh in their wake
                                  as they sit idle all through the night
                             singing songs, echoing, of their heart ache
                             wasting a fleeting chance of a brighter light

                               a billy and a nanny fall into earth's loin
                                  subsisting on lettuce, lettuce alone


connie pachecho

2/6/17