For Too Long

For too long I have remembered you a memory each day pouring over me washing what was into reflections of cluttered thoughts from distant days that may or not have been real Like flocks of birds gliding in my mind diving in unison, only to disperse like fallen leaves that lay scattered torn in half, as brown petals do from the stem of a dying rose drifting into an empty garden once filled with blooms tossed about by thoughts of love's demise Alone with vanishing footsteps, trailing away to a dull gray horizon, where the sun never rises and the round sky rolls away leaving nothing but an empty space where beauty was before being torn to wilt away on conquered ground, like a vanquished foe left bleeding on the steps of loneliness where love died 5/21/17