A Sestina of Lost Love

On those summer days the comfort was ours.

I laughed, I couldn’t believe it was love.

Gone was all of the fear from yesterday.

Joyful and carefree, that was what we were.

We were told that it was prohibited.

Our Hearts were silenced, we were going to lose.

 

You were the one that I was going to lose.

The mutual pining was what was ours.

To even wonder was prohibited.

But wondering reminded me of love.

Melancholy and gray, that's how thing were.

I could only imagine yesterday.

 

Although that was what happened yesterday.

I remember what it felt like to lose.

I no longer looked at what we once were.

It is hard to recall what was once ours.

After a lifetime I forgot our love.

Our love was once again prohibited.

 

I felt freed, though I was prohibited.

Feeling nothing when they said yesterday.

I once again felt that feeling of love.

I didn’t feel like I was the one to lose.

There wasn’t anything that was once ours.

The fear and sorrow was just the way things were.

 

I started wishing that was what we were.

I will no more feel prohibited.

I began to crave that thing that was ours.

I felt a great longing for yesterday.

Realizing your lust was mine to lose.

I should never have given up on love.

 

I am no longer the one that you love.

You do not wish to be what we once were.

I doomed you, made you think you had to lose.

Even though we were not prohibited,

you did not want to think of yesterday.

I missed and you regretted what was ours.

 

That innocent love was prohibited.

We both were wanting to touch yesterday.

Thanks to me we had to lose what was ours.

 

This poem is about: 
Me

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