All Comments on 'Purloined'

I 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.

Five.