Love Poem: Almost Love
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Written by: Lu Loo

Almost Love

you were NEVER mine...

yet

I felt you slip through
my aching fingers,
like arthritis longing
to be healed.

       you are my rose never picked-
       yet the thorns deeply pricked

I endured the sorrow of
a death that never died-
for you are my wound
that was never cut,
and I am virtually scarred...
                    FOREVERMORE.

saturated in ebon loss without
you even knowing I exist,
I drown in tidal cascades of 
knowing you will never see
my perpetual eyes.
and oh-
     the way they look at you.

            so I say to thee like
            a fleeting ivory dove,
            you know me not-
            but you're my ALMOST LOVE...




August 27, 2018