Where has love gone? I awoke from my deep slumber… Found to my astonishment, someone familiar yet A stranger…. I searched this person’s face… In earnest, grasping, anxiously, for memory…. Any sense of belonging and linkage … I remember, years past….the vows you and I took… Close to my heart and with all my soul I would hold forth …. To love and to hold… Try as I might, muster all that I can…. Summon every fiber of my being… Unable to evoke, Bereft of all that is binding… Where has love gone? Our young love, held on its cusp the promise of golden summers, The joy of each passing spring and warmth in all our winters…. Together we were to endure our seasons through the dusk of our existence…. My vision clear, my mind lucid, yet no longer able to envisage such future Where has love gone? My world then, was closely swathed in yours, unmistakably entwined, Where each day began, each night culminated with you… Seamless, our lives were one, you were my life as I was your breath… Apart and distinct, now I discern a life all my own… Where has love gone? We were as one, my heart beating as yours pulsed, in unison… Each contemplation consumed by thoughts of each other…. The end of our life, was, to be how it began….together…. Where has love gone? Danielle McHenry
Reason for writing:
This is for those who have broken up or drifed apart. It is a question I hope I never have to ask in any relationship I shall have. This is dedicated to someone in my family who has found himself at the end of a long union. The question burns, does one stay on because of one's past? or does one move on despite his past?....Someone please shed some light.
Birth sign: Aquarius
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