Goodbye
Good-Bye
Somehow there is a coldness to good-bye
a distance felt within an icy breath
a longing uncontained by endless sky
a labyrinth of darkness at its depth.
Footfalls that echo in memory’s fear
perfumes scent faded from passion worn sheets
haunting thoughts warning the lovers – beware
adrift on the sea of “second thought” fleets.
Somehow there is no warmth within good-bye
cold words that chill the edges of a heart
draw tight the painful bonds that bid them fly
compress the pounding roar that shouts depart.
Thus frost masks the agony of leaving
frozen tears the anchored pain of grieving.
9/27/2016
submitted to – Goodbye – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Nayda Ivette Negron
Copyright © John Lawless | Year Posted 2016
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