She left me white flowers
on the balcony
on the day she stopped trying
to win my love;
the first time I watched her tail-lights
with a crumb of regret.
Used to leave a loaf of bread
on my doorstep
whenever she could not find me,
drunk, alone;
furious in her offer
of easy company.
She left and in her absence
I found little solace
in the poetry I kept from her.
All these pointless words;
another lover lost to meaning,
another lover lost to impossible
dreams of perfection.
All this time afforded to me
to form my words of purpose
and total inaction.
Mar 13, 2017
Mar 13, 2017 at 3:26 PM UTC
She left me white flowers
on the balcony
on the day she stopped trying
to win my love;
the first time I watched her tail-lights
with a crumb of regret.
Used to leave a loaf of bread
on my doorstep
whenever she could not find me,
drunk, alone;
furious in her offer
of easy company.
She left and in her absence
I found little solace
in the poetry I kept from her.
All these pointless words;
another lover lost to meaning,
another lover lost to impossible
dreams of perfection.
All this time afforded to me
to form my words of purpose
and total inaction.
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