Disturbed and Twisted Stranger

Your unique colors once flashed light’s perfection inside my 
dark and with ecstatic presence you erased all the gray stains in
my heart.  In embrace, through our words and shared actions, 
our love merged and returned fulfilling, stirred and deserved 
barrier-free years.

Now, you have spent months tinted as a disturbed and twisted
stranger.  Nowhere did we swerve, no defining change occurred
yet you blurred.  You will not converse or explain, but sadden 
me by abandoning me to nurse this coarse pain you randomly 
construed to be my forced companion.  

Ignoring me and my kiss, my pleas fall infirm like harm-rinsed 
germs that your heart brings on without remorse or rain clouds 
aching for the storms. My amassed and treasured love depths 
have collapsed beyond my grasp. Numbly, I hear the echo effects 
of our shared dreams retreating steps.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Gauthier Avatar
February 27, 2019 at 11:44 PM
Well penned, CayCay. Congrats on your win.
Hamilton Avatar
October 1, 2018 at 11:47 AM
Congrats Cay Cay nice to see your name on my list again!
Gentry Avatar
August 7, 2018 at 9:47 AM
Congratulations on your win again. Well done!
Marcum Wong Avatar
August 5, 2018 at 3:58 PM
Awww this is so sad CayCay. A well conceived moving piece. Congratulations on your top win my friend! : )
Pigeon Tart Avatar
August 5, 2018 at 12:23 PM
Congratulations CayCay! :) xomo
Smith Avatar
August 5, 2018 at 11:48 AM
Congratulations CayCay, no surprise...
Scars Avatar
August 5, 2018 at 10:58 AM
amazing metaphors! great poem sweet Cay Cay, you write with gold in your hand...Thank you for your participation and congratulations on your top placement. :)-luloo
Dietrich Avatar
August 1, 2018 at 3:55 PM
oh gosh, Caycay, I hope this is not a "for real" thing!! You gotta call me!! I have to get off here now and attend to my car. it's getting 400 dollars of new brakes and two tires. Yesterday I ran over some sharp thing on the road and got home with a nearly flat tire. It's always something, but I am now caught up at Soup!! I really enjoyed the imagery in your poem here. It seems so realistic but you sometimes fool me with your poems!!
Faulkner Avatar
August 1, 2018 at 1:32 PM
This is so aching and poignant, especially 'the worst of phantom pain" line, so painful when the one you love becomes a stranger-
Smith Avatar
August 1, 2018 at 10:49 AM
Fabulous last line CayCay, best wishes in the contest...
Lamoureux Avatar
August 1, 2018 at 9:37 AM
This is a sad one but so poetically expressed. Good luck in the contest.
Allison Avatar
August 1, 2018 at 8:12 AM
Such a depth of sadness in your lines caycay I know luloo like a imagery like this. Good luck in the contest:-) Hugs Jan xx
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