This gaudy catacombswarming with couples in love –my table for one.Oppositethe empty chair screams absenceproclaims the day you […]
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Sixteen hundred years ago a man shot full of arrowsfor his faith. TodayI occupy the gapbetween what was […]
I found an old picture of you:your smile, shining with the joyof love’s delight;your eyes, focused on meas […]
A decade old –all the empty leaves now the playground of my thoughts ©Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2021. […]
I won’t send you poems any more –you have your own life nowand someone elseto sing you songs […]
I will not remember you.I refuse to recallthe curving of your waistthe laughter linesaround your mouththe clear pools […]
Every time you calla small portion of myselfdrains awayleaving behind a hollow huskthat was my heartand all my […]
I think I might be lonelywithout you –but somewhere in my heartthere stirs a hopethat all my yesterdaysdon’t […]
Terriblethe promises we make.Bound by my wordsby the love woven throughsounds and syllablesmy heartcaptiveto oaths and trothsno church […]
Goodnight – Her eyes meet minedark mysterious pondsintoxicatinglike her voicewhich sounds both Westernand not I am not drunk.Two […]