Waves

Emotional consequences of a lover leaving - 1st place winner of Holly's Poetry Contest

WAVES


The stars no longer flicker
over dreamers in the park,
and even though it’s daylight
I’m sitting in the dark.

The dreams have all but faded
into a night that is still –
sleep comes very easy to
a soul who’s lost his will.

You said you always felt so safe
whenever I held you tight,
so I embraced you often
because it felt so right.

You say you want to write
and you want to stay in touch –
but to hear you’re with another
would simply hurt too much.

I’m standing at the portside
of a love who sailed away –
I tried to ask her not to go
and she refused to stay.

So now the waves keep washing
all my useless tears to sea –
for what’s the good of freedom
if you’d rather not be free.

© ’78, 2006 Karl Arthur King