The Love I Never Knew

the open field before us was a tall grass of a butternut yellow it swayed in the breeze liquid almost alive she lead me forward calling back to me over her shoulder with a broad smile the sun caught in her hair but her smile overwhelms the sunlight and she remained to me within sight as the rest of the world fell to the amusements of the stars the air full of a false summer she laughed at such an idea and told me it was but yet mid-winter and soon the snow will fly gentle on its own goodnight path of histories fallen and left obscured in a single torn photograph she leads me on casting glances and bittersweet smiles back at me this is your last road she calls out and she is the gentle soul come to bring me to rapture she is the love i never knew the one that fell by the wayside one terrible night so long ago its very fragments are nearly forgotten to me but those fragments cherished in a single time battered photograph her blue grey eyes haunting this is my last road she is heaven i am home