Notes About The Poem
For: When You Are Old Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Sara Kendrick

Love Is Lost

Love may be lost in the process of age
and hidden in the miserly sunset 
of life, draining like a father's cold sweat.
Oh, that you could absorb my red-hot rage

and exist in a long moment with me
as though life and love were newly begun,
as if it were lace dainty and finespun,
with hopes now aglow on a sparkling sea~

but the sea has become angry and rough
capsizing and drowning us in its wrath;
love is forgotten as death lays its path
and quietude wraps you up in a huff.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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January 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Congratulations on your winning work in my contest. Way to go. Thank you for your participation. Sara K
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