poem- former lovers

The pain of loss in looking back. .. the hope of eternal love in looking forward.

Shawn L. Bird

They speak of gifts

from former lovers

vases

or black eyes,

ring

or babies.

They carry

former intimacies

horrors and tragedies

traumas and ecstasies.

I have no

former lover,

I  carry only

years with you

no horrors mar our history

just monogamous longevity–

our effort at ontogeny.

.

.

(definition of ontogeny here) 😉

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