Love Poem: Not for ailing love

Not for ailing love

our beautiful balloon, about to burst,
  an endless journey meets its sudden end,
    forced to tango with our faults.
  photographs torn, 
      glass shards 
       s   c   a   t   t  e   r   e   d 
                                   in the   o  p  e  n.
          our roads   s   p   l   i   t   in two, 
               our bridges burnt,
 to let our   
~s~~h~~i~~p~~s ~~~s~~a~~i~~l~
                           toward different 
                                      ~s~~e~~a~~s~.

winter flakes f
                          a
                              l
                                 l cold,
       summer sun shines warm;
   spring rains  c h i l l e d, 
the garden  l i t t e r e d
    with autumn f
                              a
                                  l
                                     len leaves.
silence now e~c~h~o~e~s your shouts~
      footsteps c
                            l
                              i
                                m
                                    bing the stairs,
singing only in dreams. 

all our arguments, 
     our fights, 
       our joy, 
           our love,
whisper like the s i l e n t  ~b~l~o~w~ of leaves in my memories.

the sky now holds a single star in its vastness,
 the desert just a single tree in its emptiness,
   e~c~h~o~e~s   l i n g e r  in hollow canyons.

but divorce shouldn't have been the cure for our ailing love,
 it only brought an allergy born of a rotten apple
time always heals wounds, 
                            so it can restore our lost love~
            especially when the  ~w~i~n~d~s~  are now calm,
  and the tide no longer p
                                             u
                                                 l
                                                    l
                                                       s so strong,
    and the river finally  ~f~l~o~w~s~  in the right direction.

ours is no longer a   s  h  a  t  t  e  r  e  d   mirror,
                   locked behind 
              a door~
  our ~s~~h~~i~~p~
    is no longer  l   o   s   t
                          at ~s~~e~~a~.