Amid the Jagged Shadows

" Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gold tinged paints dripped from the air, under the clear opalescent autumn sky, jade foliage turned to full-bloom flower, I flew my heart like a bird over the canopy. The canopy of your allure so beguiling took me to the enticing heights of ecstasy. The nest we built in the cleft of boughs glistened in love-laced moonshine night. Night of strife surged a wrecking storm, the nest crumbled to debris of despair. You flew away to the sunny sky obscure, left me to suffer in the spasm of winter. Winter frost slithered with the north wind to desolateness of the defoliated boughs. I felt my love freeze in the congealed heart amid the jagged shadow of broken wings. " Without love, we are birds with broken wings" - Mitch Albom November 28, 2019 For Brian Strand's Contest A Brian Strand July 12