Without

Windswept ash

Eyes search lost

Love

Scattered in the gust

Relevancy causes alarm

Earth, rest now

Years as minutes,
Seconds as decades

Love

Waits.

Once kissed, a lifetime ago

Single love, passed too soon

Complete recollection,
Fragrance taunts my reality

Love

My heart's weight

Deepest emptiness of now shallow soul

Cloudless skies hide the sun

Contempt, the lion roars

Deaf, ears drum the sound

Love

Tips of finger, touched once

Rain falls

Nights continuous darkness

Ceilings pattern into mind etched

My hollow heart

A sudden cry

On bended knee

Love

It leaves me as in womb

I lay

Wait

Ache.

-J.G.Smith (07/17/05)