Once There Was a Love
Once the world around me was beautiful and serene
and my life was filled with fiery passion and desire.
But those flames are becoming embers in my memories,
in reveries of a lost love for which I desperately yearn.
It's become such a ponderous burden,
leaving deep scars upon my wounded heart.
When in the gloom of night, I see his handsome face,
waves of emotions rise and fall inside of me,
for when his visits end, I'm left alone upon the shore.
With haunting thoughts of all that we once shared,
I wake with lingering images of being held in his arms.
Never have I been willing to accept the emptiness I feel.
Pensively, I search the horizon expecting him to appear.
It’s with misplaced hope that I imagine him there.
I walk the beach at dawn and to the ocean I confide
my wish to be with him, if God would close His eyes.
Hindered by knowing it's not the course I should take,
but feeling as though I'm drowning within an abyss,
A bottomless pit from which I will never escape.
Once, there was a great love, yet sometimes it seems
it was but a dream, and now all traces of us are fading,
for each time I draw his name with mine in the sand
the tide rushes in and quickly washes them both away.
October 19, 2022 ~ A Poetry contest by JCB Brul
Inspired by a song ~ Once There Was A Love
Copyright © Jenna Logan | Year Posted 2022
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