"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."
- Washington Irving
Those "monuments" will forever commemorate the speaker's capacity for love - regardless of whether they are ever seen, let alone appreciated, by the one that inspired their creation.
Green, those, could of been, they will haunt us. Very nice use of words and thoughts. You made the reader grasp the thought. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote
Oh how I know this feeling. I believe I wrote some of my best poems for someone who will never read them and that fact haunts me often. Wonderfully written. I really liked this.
I'm living in the good ol' south of the US of A. Professionally, I'm an engineer and I guess that means I'm supposed to know things. I don't always. I write because I can, and because I can write word.. more..