Love Lost Poem by Linda Marie Van Tassell

When nothing seems to work anymore
and nothing turns out right,
when all you want is to be held close
and you only argue and fight,
when your lover is cold and turns away,
a long, long night becomes the day.

When lying naked in a wistful bed,
you think how bizarre it seems
that now you lie next to a stranger,
in the broken mirror of dreams.
When shadows dance upon the wall,
you've lost your love, you've lost it all.

When birds fly south for the winter
to find shelter in another's arms,
when the world becomes cold and brittle
and loses all her charms,
when Persephone is nowhere to be found,
love becomes a silent sound.

When the voice of the wind echoes sorrow
and dismal clouds come out from the gray,
when your lover's kiss is absent
and snows upon the waters lay,
when your lover seems to be withdrawn,
a darkness cloaks the morning dawn.

When love is lost and cast aside,
the world becomes a lonely strand.
You walk in the gloom of being alone,
having no one to understand.
You walk against the wind and rain
and wish for love to come back again.

So you sleep aside, turning sadly over,
and weep and cry beneath the cover.
Your heart so broken, beyond repair,
to know that your love doesn't care.
Your tears unknown, your sorrow hushed.
Your heart and soul mortally crushed.

Love lies broken among the flowers.
And you think, 'What happened to this love of ours? '