A Lover’s Warning

A longing heart is torn by time and space
We yearn to fill. The gaping hole of strife
Bears wide our secret aching hiding place
To strikes against the heart that bears our life.

To banish thoughts of love? Alas, a feat.
For the mind eclipsed in forgetfulness
Attempts to fight the memory of heat:
That tender touch we long to repossess.

The memories creep back into the mind
Like insects crawling up the haunted walls
Of memory. Our pain and strife confined
To endless repetitions of their calls.

Let longing lover’s heed to warnings here,
To keep their beloved ones ever near.