Gold Glitter Gone

Though lovers be lost, love shall not. ~ Dylan Thomas

I watched you walk away,

a trail of silence

following your shadow.

You never looked back.

 

You carried in your hands

the gifts that I gave,

purchased months beforehand

in wait for Christmas.

 

But Christmas never came

for the two of us.

It slid into New Year’s

and lost tomorrows.

 

I could not understand

your broken edges,

how you carved out my heart

and left me behind.

 

I watched the sun go down,

the gold glitter gone,

all of the open doors

closed in an instant.

 

I am a shallow shell,

hollowed by the love

that I poured into you

that poured out of me.

 

I am no longer yours.

I dig up the past

and bury it again -

slaughter of my dreams.

 

I took you at your word.

I believed in you,

slipping over the brink

into the abyss.

 

You did not break my fall.

I tore through the clouds

and the eternal breath

of awakening.

 

I watched you walk away,

my withering stare

a sentimental ghost

buried in the past.

Author's Note

Reviews

[Relic]

If we're not complete and confident with ourselves, we can't expect anyone else to fill the void. Being alone is not so bad and gives us time to reflect and improve. It also gives us the wisdom to know what to watch for next time around - when and if we choose to do so.

Nice music with this, Linda. :)

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

I don't mind being alone at all. Quite to the contrary. I have chosen that route because I will not settle for less. Fortunately, I can take care of myself. I always have and always will. Love is not about needing someone for fulfillment. Love is love.

[W. Barrett Munn]

Outside of poetry, best advice I ever heard is the best unions are of two complete persons choosing to unite, and each then brings a bonus the other before did not have available; but when two who need to unite to feel whole do unite they have nothing left to give.
That’s what this poem brought to mind.

Winston

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

Well said. I did not need him to feel whole. I was complete without him. Love just magnified me. He was the one who wasn't whole - a man who could only love in half measures and not for very long at that.