The karma of love

When we are young. We waste the gift of love.

     The Karma of Love
       Written on 5 March 1985 


I remember when the sparkles in your eyes could
light up the world surrounding you.

I remember how I wanted you.

How I twisted my world backward.

Just for a few moments of your touch.

Now my heart is in remorse and dismantle.
Every time I think of you.
How you made every moment so special.
I feel weaken.

Now your smiles are rare.
Your beautiful blue eyes lost their sparkles.
You are living alone in a wasteland of loneliness.
Hiding all your pain.
I taught you.

Maybe your life wasn't so tough.
But your heart was tender.
Easily broken.
And me.
I was just after another conquest.
Another heart to add to my hunger.
Never to be fulfilled.

You won.
After I left you.
Your beautiful face.
The memories of your tears.
Left me empty and dead.

Now I dreams I left you smiling.
Laughing for our love would never
end for you.
You would be my brightest star.
I would be there to hold you when you
were afraid.

I awake alone.
Seeing the damage done to you.
Was done to me.

I called you.
I told you. "I'm sorry.
I would come back.
I miss and love you."

You whispered.
"Thank you.
I'm alright.
It is too late.
I have nothing left to give."

So funny.
I realized I stole all your dreams.

I also lost my dreams the morning I left you
in our warm bed.
To conquer another poor woman.

Leaving you with my heart.




                        Coyote
                   5 March 1985


 
 

Author's Note

A old poem. When we are young. The gifts of love and emotion is wasted. If I could go back in time. I would be a different man. But that is what fool's say when it is too late.

Reviews

[Sid]

Great piece, the transformation from all the love, happiness and the smiles to the this stanza is amazingly done.
"Now your smiles are rare.
Your beautiful blue eyes lost their sparkles.
You are living alone in a wasteland of loneliness.
Hiding all your pain.
I taught you."
this is also my favorite stanza though i like the way it ends on a more hopeful note...great work!!

[Lena M. P.]

Sad, potent about a love thrown away and dreams destroyed by our actions. Very well written.

[W. Paul Keoke Maury]

Dam that hit the heart. Powerful stuff you have there man LOVE IT

[Sweet_pale_cacophony]

Maybe your life wasn't so tough.
But your heart was tender.
Easily broken.
And me.
I was just after another conquest.
Another heart to add to my hunger.
Never to be fulfilled.
These are the lines that speak to me...i find them intriguing...the lines i was just after another conquest to add to my hunger...those are wonderful...it takes so much for a man to say such words...thus they say that you are a honest beautiful soul...

[Honeypot]

I wonder why giving your heart isn't enough for some people? It's the best gift in the world to have someones love but some can't appreciate it. I adored the piece. By far my favorite of the ones I've read. Glad you eventually learned the lesson.

[Maria F. Rojas]

touchy

[just rose.]

Your pieces are always full of such profound ache and wistfulness, and there is always within them an incredibly intimate and open homage to memory, and lessons learned ... it goes soul-deep, it really does, and your words resound with me. I love this.

[Francez]

The change this man undergone from a heartbreaker to wanting her back is what makes this poem exceptional and touching. I do find the fullstops after each line a bit weird for a poem.

My favorite part:
"Now your smiles are rare.
Your beautiful blue eyes lost their sparkles.
You are living alone in a wasteland of loneliness.
Hiding all your pain."

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Oh so well written. Loved this.

[Nathan Thompson]

Wow. I have never been a love-em-and-leave-em-guy but that's might be because I'm not the best looking guy in the world. Still I could imagine being that guy and not thinking about the hurt I cause for both her AND me. Thanks for opening my eyes.

[JENY]

Nice writing….
Seems like an attempt to comeback….
To something….which one always felt….
As true…..
I liked it...