The Bitter Fruits of Love

Like a seed sown into the bosom of the earth, I took you into my heart and let you take roots. I showered you with my love and nurtured you with my dreams hoping someday a sturdy tree to flourish bearing sweet fruits of love and casting around me a cool and soothing shade in my trying days of high noon. But like a fledgling, having learned to fly, You abandoned the love nest disappearing from my life like a track of foot-prints on the ever-shifting sands of the desert! "Falling in Love" contest by Aiyah de Torres