When the Sun Was Gone

She thought I loved her for the texture of her hair 
Yes, but I also loved her for her flair 
We thought that our love will always float in the air 
We were sure, and for this we stood foursquare 
She thought I loved her for the cocoa brown color of her skin
I could care less because that’s not the reason for our love’s tailspin 
Our souls were joined at some point in passion like a Siamese twin 
Long before our popular love turned into a devotion that had-been 

Perhaps we expected our actions to always be so circumspect
Love is conditional, relationships need an emotional architect 
So, she thought I loved her for the velvet cavity betwixt her thighs 
I don’t apologize, she is a powerful woman, or else please advise 
She thought I am a man-shaped drug the detox to which is painful 
Till I remembered that many of her devotional phrases were so guileful  
Saying that she has been in a hole for so long that it started feeling like home 
Saying that she has been watering a dead flower and every flaw was a syndrome 
Saying that she has justified to many scars by loving a person who’s holding a knife 
Saying that she would rather be in a relationship that is full of love and life 
Saying that she has her boundaries pushed, her thing inside has been awakened 
You might wonder whether her hitting-the-freeway had already been preordained

From the oceans of love, our feelings have been invited ashore 
The absences of which each of us can barely account for
Perhaps we expected ourselves to be as perfect
Little did we know that in this prison of letdown we’re a convict  
But should every slip-up we confect be checked?
Every box of that which doesn’t connect us be ticked? 
We dwell with the denizens of the deep - our ship’s wrecked
We both know that we don’t need a restraining order 
To come to the grips of it that it is over 
Lips that taste the tears, they say are the best for kissing
I pray that you save the kissing for your engagement ring 
So, then I can be happy that I dried my tears to see the stars 
When the sun was gone and that only memories will remain ours
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Agustin Avatar
April 23, 2022 at 4:13 AM
Thanks for sharing this. Welcome to Poetry Soup. I welcome you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." God bless you. (By the way, IMHO, your poem employs the rhyme form.)
Kolowa Avatar
April 25, 2022 at 5:24 AM
Thank you Beata - I take to note the rhyme form thing too
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