Lover

Link lover link to me,

you’re the fantasy lover

I will live this life without.

You always seemed so close

in my dreams of childhood,

the soul in the eyes

of this story-book character

who loved me as a mother

I may never see.

It no longer matters what you wear

what your body looks like

or the length of your hair,

I no longer need a good lover,

a youthful fantasy I never did see.

But the way you quaver on the edge of my sight

brings sobs of bereavement to me.

10/11/16