Poe and Me...

Forgive me, I didn’t notice

but the World seems to have broken.

It was perfectly fine a moment ago

But it fell apart, after I’d spoken

Pillows creaseless and plump

Remind me of a companion, mo more!

And a wealth of love, all vacant

With Poe’s Raven upon the door.

I empathise with him, his loss, Lenore

Tormented and still compelled to utter

Her name. Reaching, hoping, lost.

A Raven enters with flirt and flutter

My Lenore has not gone, not Nevermore.

But absent, removed, an infringement

Of sustainable, recyclable love

An end to a treasured engagement.

You may wonder at ‘sustainable’

True love is not eco-friendly, not green

It soaks up energy like no tomorrow

Especially the fuel, that isn’t seen.

I wonder at this World sometimes

Why it breaks apart and leaves such

Indignity and open battle wounds

Proportional to how I Love You so much.

Don’t worry, she ain’t listening. She

Over me and already making a plan

Guess it all meant nothing

And she will find, another man.

Me, I have to lick my wounds

Try to come to terms, to forget

And still I hope against all hopes

That we are not over yet.

The Raven sits upon the placid bust

And spoke only, that one word, Lenore

‘Til I scarcely more than muttered

Other friends have flown before’

Lies

(This is as it rolled out.)

When your lover means the world to you

And you want to shine in her eyes

The truth will only make her blue

But your ego shouts white lies.

This is what happened recently to me

With the woman who is my world

My self-esteem winced out a plea

So I lied and grief unfurled.

I don’t want to be a failure to her

Rather to look at me, admiringly

And spare disappointed eyes, a blur

And be better, than she will ever see.

No malice, just an urgent need

To please and sparkle a while

To make believe and sow a seed

And encourage a loving smile.

For her loving smile, beaming my way

Lifts my heart to a heavenly place

And that is where I want it to stay

Yet frequently, I fall from grace.

There is no real excuse for lying

To the person you love the most

Appear as the failure you are, no trying

No pretence or empty boast.