Love Drowns In The Lake Poem by Susan Lacovara

Why betray the long sought after
Blessing of LOVE
When finally placed
With purposeful precision
Into your own hands

She stood shining
In all her lakeside loveliness
Wide-eyed wishful and welcoming
Pointing out stars she had wished upon
Recounting the secrets of her soul
Giving hand tied bundles of love letters
While lacing fragrant flowers in her hair
To you, to you, to only you
Was it not enough

You saw the stretch of her soulfulness
That blanketed your broken being
It was there, all there...
That dream of complete care

From the first blink of her bedroom eyes
Finding your morning rise
To her daily feedings of filling you empty cup
She danced in the daylight of possibility
Slept safe, in your slumbering embrace
And traced the outline of your chin
So as to begin to know every inch of you

Why betray that simple love
She asked for little more than your impeccable truth
For first you had promised as much
She shifted sun and moon to make way for you
Altered her imaginationto encompass
All you so eagerly announced would be hers

With your chalkboard eraser
A sudden swipe
To clear what was happiness, handwritten
Your intentional words turning to dust
Gone in an instant
Like a comet's tail, gone dark and disappearing

She now stands silent
A ghost by the lonely lakeside
Watching the fog lift
Vaporize into the blackened night sky
Of betrayed love