Wednesday, June 29, 2022

After Dolce

You don't want it
          to be so,
  but no amount of
                    love
             you give
  you don't 
                   receive.

It's unequivocally the
                    same
            love
   from the same
                place.

You come here
            to experience 
   the creme de menthe
                  parfait
        of rainbow layered
                atmospheric
                          veins
                     of rock,

The love you need 
                  comes
   from empty canyons
   where the wind
           rushes in
             so pleasurably
        it's like the day
           will never end,

Even as the sun turns 
       golden on hills
           you've never
               seen before,
   where you learn
       you once set up
                  your home,

           now long gone,
   the weeds grown over
             so magnificently
                      in the sun,
the memory like a dream
         you will wait for,
                         it seems,
               like the twilight,
                    forever.