Today’s word at Word of the Day Challenge is “wish.”
Wishes, no matter
how heartfelt how
life-or-death-impossible
can sometimes
surprise you and
come true and life
is suddenly perfect.
Other wishes don’t
stand a chance in
Hell
of turning out and
when they don’t
your heart shatters like
great grandmother’s
Christmas ornaments—
in sudden, perpetual
slow-mo.
And you truly
aren’t
that surprised.
A heart can only break
so many times before
it numbs itself to
pain, joy, love, sorrow.
then all it can do is beat —
until it doesn’t.
I wasn’t even trying,
wasn’t even thinking about it.
So far out of the wild blue
I almost didn’t recognize
It.
Serendipitous, yet quick and sly —
like a London pickpocket.
That sweet kind of suddenness
is the best part of
falling in love
again.
It’s Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub!
Your lips move
In sync with your hands,
giving a voice to the words
that live
in your heart.
You write them on the air
(in permanent, invisible ink)
and my heart can hear
~ So clearly ~
What my ears
cannot.
You’re the last chapter
In my tattered Book of Love.
It’s time to shelve it.
dog-eared pages torn
clichés fade to sepia
like yesterday’s dreams
and you flicked what’s left
of my broken heart off my
sleeve into the dirt.
Thought I’d saved the best
for last; you proved me wrong for
the last time. Again.
