- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Purloined
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I saw him from a distance once today,
The one who possesses my fractured heart.
A child dances
Around him, adored, her bright eyes trusting.
The one who possesses my fractured heart
Bids me greeting now and again, fragments
Of attempted normalcy fade his voice,
Bringing forth tears that refuse to be shed.
A child dances
Without the slightest notion of despair.
How I envy her! She is trusting still.
In a white dress, happy, laughing, twirling
Around him, adored, her bright eyes trusting.
He swoops her up, high into his strong arms –
The way he once danced with me, older now.
I saw him from a distance once today.
- COMMENTS
lorencinoalmost 13 years agoI like this contrast of watching innocent joy while feeling the sadness of a loss. The fractured heart speaks of pain without despair and tells of a full-blown human being experiencing the agony that is part of being human. Without the observed joy, the pain would be of little interest to me. The poem really works for me as a snapshot representing a point in time of a lifetime. Somehow the poem elicits an optimism in that there is nothing to suggest that this pain will endure and that the fractured heart will not heal.
