The Sweet Meadows of My Life

She was always wondering about Love, as she strolled through the meadow that day. Why was it always so cruel? She did not know or understand.

She was getting close to the down town and it was getting dark and the trains were running she realized. A street car, wonderfully modeled, shot off the tracks racing through intersections; it was wheeling out into the forest and back into town. Was love on the streetcar? Was he there?

She was finally on Oak Street and it was real dark by now, you could hear the whispering fall of individual pine needles as they dropped in the woods.

And unkind you are

Love you are cruel

And frugal

Withholding my blessings

Love you promised me the world

You were going to be gentle

And unconditional

Instead you took

The sweet meadows of my life

And made it rain.

Shroud in mists

Across the straits where lovers cry

Flanks smooth as silk

As love smiled and called my name

My hair loosely pulled back

I brought up one graceful arm

As my fingers danced over your sweet skin

And our twin hearts

Poured out the songs

Of the swaying strings

And smiled and called his name.

Summer has come and gone.

I writhe to free myself from

His grasp

I lift my face to the sun

With the warm rays of life giving skin

I cry

And search my soul for you

Holding fast and

Creeps in like thick oozing clay

A drug of memories for you

I say.

As the sweet meadows of my life

©Copyright 2012 by POET DEBORAH BROOKS-LANGFORD

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