Love Poem: Phases
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Written by: John Watt

Phases

the night as black as a newly broken heart

      increasingly 
         the crescent of a single sly smile
             outshone the vast stellar firmament 
                an enigmatic, ephemeral shooting star
 
                    subsequently
                      with a twinkle twinkle in her eyes
                       counting down to our jovial Jupiter joyride
                        waxing poetic on a comet's cosmic course
                        
                             and
                          life  was
                             Full

                         inevitably 
                        eclipsed by a brighter constellation
                       diminishing her gorgeous gibbous glow
                     our penumbra luminosity reached its nadir

                 ultimately 
              her heavenly smile inverted
           my waning orb fell from her orbit
       i splashed down in a cold, lonesome ocean

the night as black as a newly broken heart


Written 14 Aug 2022