A Present Now Unfelt



Twas once a time you stole my heart,
  then Laura stole it back

Through all those years our hearts on fire,
  she waited and she sat

She hoped one day our lives would part,
  to never meet, as then…

Her voice so soft cried through the night,
  “I want you back again

You need to promise this time,
  that you’ll never leave me cold

And even if you dally forth,
  as your Muse she will behold

I heal you of this tragic drought,
  you brought upon yourself

And give you back the future-past,
  in a present now unfelt”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

Note: My Poetic Muse (Laura) takes me back after 5 years of writing prose ....
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 15, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AX XX AB XB XC XC XX XA X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 623
Words 116
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1

Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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