The Road To…

The leaves fell as did I

Now I missed you eternally at the dawn of autumn’s first dusk

As I missed the metro north up to your home

Formally ours never mine

Stardust permeated your existence on my dashboard

How our lives history fit in the glove compartment from 2006

Innate carnal desires consumed me whole

The rush of multitudes brought me to our finish line

How I’d sell the world to get you back

All I said but never did, all I did but never said

Pawned all my jewels to pay the bills

Our endless nights spent on the floor of my walkup

How I never slept but stood awake to know that you did

Rejection turned resentment as winter came

Isolation built from my own devices, the personal hell I built for myself

Infernal Eternal

My heart ached missing when we drove to the cottage in Oyster Bay

The route towards Syosset after 40 E

When the roof of the Sebring got caught in the wind

My hat flew off

Another addition to the Lineage of casualties of our love affair

Caught in the crossfires after you told me “no one loved me like you did”

How it was the third time I heard that

The first time I knew it to be true

The last time I would ever take those words for granted