Once Upon a Time I Believed in Love

Written in 2005, when my marriage of 30 years came to an end.

Once upon a time I believed in Love.
It was my religion.
I believed so completely that love

 could heal all wounds.
It was a medicine for all that ails.
It could fix anything, anyone.

Now I'm standing in the smoldering

 ruins of my happy ending and

I'm left with nothing but contempt

 for the very concept.

Cigarette firmly gripped in my lips.
Laughing my a*s off hysterically

as everything I dreamed of catches

 fire and disintegrates in front of me.

It's garbage.

Reviews

[SmittyJas]

some will never quench the fires the love starts destroying and burning to the core of the bone.

[RAOrourke]

Such a feeling all have known and you portrayed it vividly!

[Josie E. Cook M. A.]

I so know this feeling because I lived it too--twice!
I do not look for number 3 either!
You have said it all in this short poem.

[Anne Timmins]

I enjoyed the trail you took me on with this write and the deep thought that went into it

[SingPoetically]

Wow as you read along you find yourself actually saying wow out loud nicely nicely written

[shruthi]

I love it...!!!!!
awesome choice of words especially the last stanza...

[ba_mcfarlane]

Wow! This piece is all honesty, being brutal to the point of snatching one's breath as it is read. Bleak, sombre, riveting; what a ride!

[Mary C]

You write with such depth and conviction my friend. This is an amazing piece

[Blake Fodor]

Very nicely written and haunting piece

[Wandering Minstrel]

This is a very nicely drawn, focused piece. I really enjoyed it all the way through