Love Drowns In The Lake

Why betray the long sought after Blessing of LOVE When finally placed With purposeful precision Into your own hands She stood shining In all her lakeside loveliness Wide-eyed wishful and welcoming Pointing out stars she had wished upon Recounting the secrets of her soul Giving hand tied bundles of love letters While lacing fragrant flowers in her hair To you, to you, to only you Was it not enough You saw the stretch of her soulfulness That blanketed your broken being It was there, all there... That dream of complete care From the first blink of her bedroom eyes Finding your morning rise To her daily feedings of filling you empty cup She danced in the daylight of possibility Slept safe, in your slumbering embrace And traced the outline of your chin So as to begin to know every inch of you Why betray that simple love She asked for little more than your impeccable truth For first you had promised as much She shifted sun and moon to make way for you Altered her imaginationto encompass All you so eagerly announced would be hers With your chalkboard eraser A sudden swipe To clear what was happiness, handwritten Your intentional words turning to dust Gone in an instant Like a comet's tail, gone dark and disappearing She now stands silent A ghost by the lonely lakeside Watching the fog lift Vaporize into the blackened night sky Of betrayed love