The moment he admits he didn’t mean it and has no clue how it slipped out. He does not, in fact, love you and deeply regrets wrenching your heart until it broke.
Addendum
Category: Cherita
The Moon and Me
did you see the Moon early this morning? ripe and luscious and ready to burst — remember when I was just like Her?
Calixta
This Cherita was written for Colleen's Tanka Tuesday but I failed to read the guidelines carefully. This should have been written in Tanka, Haiku, Senryu, Haibun, Etheree or Cinquain poetry forms. Ooops! Here's mine anyway: Calixta bewitched her men as they dreamt, making them burn and ache with desire; craving her touch, her warmth. They [...]
A Cherita: Still
Did you know that you still make my heart flip and fly like a trapeze artist without a net?
The Live Oak
the old live oak dripping with Spanish moss and tenderly inscribed with our initials gentle and forever to the stars and back
