When Gravity Failed

Love is gained and lost.

I lay down in the open grass

hoping for the feeling to pass

I was empty, 

as if removed of organ and soul

by a loud, gaping hole

It seemed to vaccum all sound,

it lifted all life from the ground,

Unwilling and unknowing,

I allowed myself to fall,

and in fear, I expressed all

all there was to be revealed,

all that had been concealed.

I suddenly knew all that one knows

about the love one feels,

and the pain that follows.

Gravity failed and I fell,

it put me under a spell.

I wasted so much on it,

my time and energy, forfeit.

Reviews

[Distant horizons]

Wonderfully expressed, the feeling that loss follows love and hurt is much a part of love. again, wonderful flow.

[Sujash I. Purna]

This is a great poem. Gravity, I guess you meant the alacrity which we all crave while living but when it fails sheer ennui engulfs us and we believe it had been a waste of time. Unique style. Kudos!