Taste of Goodbye

You’re so pretty,
With a mind
Full of madness and
A smile saddened by
The lost ripples of time.

I loved you then,
I love you still.

The words I write for you are
Somber,
Because of the seeds of sorrow
You’ve planted in my soul.

But I have wetted them with
My tears,
And kept them alive
Because this is where hope grows,
The hope that I’ll be set free.

You are the taste of goodbye
That’s framed my memories.
The taste of goodbye that keeps
My heart on the run.

I’ve long searched for you in
Melodies and Moonbeams.
Haunted by nocturnal regrets
And gilded dreams.

Until one day,
I felt a cool shiver down my
Spine,
And realization opened my eyes.

Love,
Like ours,
Happens once in an eternity.
And our eternity has come to
An end.

May these words,
Frozen in ice,
Reach you somehow
On this cold January night.

And know that I’ll still think of you
And always see your wintry eyes
In the moonlight above.

©️KVP
Art: Skull Heads
Prompt: @coralynn.poetry
“Melodies and Moonbeams”
“Nocturnal regrets”
“Heart on the run.”
“Lost ripples in time”
“Where hope grows.”
“Taste of goodbye”
“Words frozen in ice.”