Just Sayin’: Not For Rent

Of past regrets
I know too much
and echoes which
sound like sin
I knew too well
her frozen touch
that I shall not
ever feel again.
I still remember that October day
how the wind swept leaves away
The noon sun glorified raven hair
how it flowed how I had to stare
Painful memories refusing to die
for many years I wondered why
Why cruel winter rueful and gray
bleak and pitiless stole you away
Yet constant as the crescent moon
remembrances of love are strewn
Forever I think on an October day
how the wind swept leaves away.
On and on
thus
passes time.
Listen to me
within
this rhyme.
As the day
gives
to night.
I wish to
hold
you tight.
Too much doubt
within
your head.
Too much woe
within
your bed.
But this won’t
ever
be true.
I think of
me
with you.
cast away this
little poem
beyond the cold brook
cast away the
fairy tale
from a children’s book
toss away this
silly dream
from the dead of night
toss away the
lovely girl
from your bleary sight.
cast away this
ancient chant
from your memory.
cast away the
little poem
and let the past be.