Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The spoils of hope

On almost sunny afternoons
A quiet heart is free to muse
On questions unasked
Sighs that fill those spaces
Between Fear and Knowing

All that has ransomed our plans
Where weaker minds and youthful 
Dreams went unexplored
That land of weeping
Now swept with a fog
A rolling heaviness
Almost romantic

Books closed, tea unsipped
Pretty hands folded neatly on chintz 
Naked fingers curl round 
Some phantom we almost grasped. 

And a deeper pain
A quieter pain
Spills tears, and goes silent.

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