Emotions – Page 72

Millstone

Old memories found
In the back of the closet
Hiding in the gloom

In our bed, half asleep
The years of comfort found in
The space between us

In a copse of trees

Entwined in vines, a slowly

Rusting tricycle

I caught your eye then

I glanced down at my cell phone

And you kept walking

As midnight’s tide ebbs
The wet sand saves our footprints
But for a moment

Smoke borne on the wind

Transporting me to the hearth

Of my childhood home

The vessel broken
one soul escapes to freedom
with a final breath

Our love together

Once bathed in fire, now kept warm

By an ember’s glow

Tiny rivulets

Reveal traces of pink skin

Down her dirty cheeks

I arrived in time

To watch you walk away from

Our lives together