Lost Love

Lost Love (A lone voice whispers) Once lost In love's asylum Overcome by guilt As I sat serving unseen emotional titans In every second, Sat in silence Feeling numb and Bristling with sweet thoughts of violence Feeling time Enjoying the rush Like a blackbird crowing in the bush A bell always rings Breaking the spell running up and down my spine Where memories of you sing In seductive rhymes When you were mine Dressed in white Wearing our favourite rings It maybe a cut Of a thousand deaths This night When I remember a real love I once possessed In night and day But like frankincense and Myrrh Which always flows and sways To the secret codex linked To the excesses of sex And midnight conquests When libido's pray to play As I lay in this solitude With this curse to be endured And all that may follow I look to the divine gift of Apollo And write poetry of you To rebuild My inner hollow As my pitiful sorrow My soul Delicately tries in vain To Swallow (C) Copyright John Duffy