Phantom of Love

To my dearest lost soul,

Dark shrouds the skies, blocking life from light,

Tormenting me. My love at first sight,

A sunless box you forever rest,

Hidden away, shutting light from death.

Bones bare, broken, no more held by me

Like I held you, hearts a symphony,

Dancing in the light of the blue moon.

A love so pure, rare, but brought us doom.

Now you’re gone, in the deep void of black,

I’m alone on this forsaken track.

Your smile, laugh, warm eyes, and melting heart

Promised me we’d never be apart.

I walk a road not mine to advance.

Behind lies endless, empty expanse.

Life slinking into obscurity,

Here I’m sinking in impurity.

In shadows of death, life forgotten,

Of lost friends, hopes and grief begotten.

The road points straight - forward and backward,

Yet you strayed into arms of dark wood.

They grip you, branches like sharp tendrils,

Black veins against a sky of perils.

The tree which was your last reckoning

Looms ahead of me now, beckoning.

You wore your tightly woven necklace,

Rope burned your skin, your last smile, reckless.

A sigh rested on your cracked dry lips.

A sad sound carried by the wind rips

My soul, now pieces cracked and broken

By the roar of your breath awoken.

Is it the howl of the windy gale?

The same cold wind that turned your skin pale

Which steals my air (I’m too a victim)

Which left you as a breathless phantom?

The tree’s fingers lured you, held you fast,

While wind tore your sigh from your weak grasp,

Careless, stiff and heavy you there swung,

Lashed by the angry, bitter wind’s tongue

No more able to harm you darling.

In my heart always, despite departing.

Love at first sight isn’t eternal.

You’re gone. My memory, infernal,

Leaves only imprints of our true love

I can now hardly even write of,

Memories of you obscured, shapeless,

And your voice is now muffled, soundless.

Your face is gone, but feeling remains,

My heart twists and knows what it still craves;

A passion, a love song on the breeze,

Which you sang on our first date with ease.

Your heart’s missing, take mine forever

So that we are always together.

Your imprint on life is all but gone

And I, lost and hopeless, wait for dawn

For the sun’s beam, heavenly fire

To warm my cheeks like your true fibre

I wait, my love, for your sweet release

But you’re still in the dark. Please, find peace.

Forever yours,

Betty