Love Poem: I Couldn't Talk About It, So I Wrote A Poem
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Written by: Frederic Parker

I Couldn't Talk About It, So I Wrote A Poem

How dark the night, when the end came
and love vanished in a voiceless turbulent moment
when eyes pulled away, leaving a vacuum
as pain and sorrow blackened the skin of my heart

Allowing tears to fall and reverberate
   in the recesses of my soul
with a thunderous throbbing depression
   that sullied my world
leaving ragged roots of despair
   that gorged themselves
on the passion of my soul's soil

Where footprints led to the open gate
where strings of unknown reasons
   played on my heart
like the sound of a sad violin
calling my soul, seeking a melody of understanding
   in a night of upheaval
that rushed toward me with melancholy tones
   of misery
stripping away the joy of love
leaving a black sackcloth of ashes
that was plowed into my dead garden 
   of love
revealing crushed furrows of turbulent ground
where the roots of love once grew
and is now an empty windblown field
drenched in darkness, where nothing lives
but my grief-stricken memories of love