A Path Apart

And so my path led once again to you,
My heart a-beating thunder in my chest,
Crying out for that soft touch anew
Upon the cage that trapped my love’s unrest.

And so I came once more, my love the waif
Of yours, which once with mine was intertwined;
But when I see your eyes I see them strafe
And crush my hope that your love I would find.

My path had turned back from stolidity
To go back to the groves of unimpeded
Love for you, but now I see futility
Is my path’s name, and I’m for you unneeded.

As presence shows, two hearts that grow apart
May not always return to single heart.



*Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter, abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme.

*Written as a response to "A Path to You"   by Ben Langhinrichs-quiet