Our love set aside <br />Lets go your bitter pain <br />Pitiful little bird caged <br />Its youthful feathers clipped <br />To ensure you always there <br />But time is growth from me <br />Ready to fly once again <br />Away from my gripping touch <br /> <br />My lover confined no longer <br />Now one of malice and contempt <br />Cerulean eyes once alluring and soft <br />Settling to chilled impenetrable glass <br />Autumn’s unforgiving nights of gray <br />Blowing through me bitter stares <br />Stabbing wounds imbedded deeply <br />My spirit lost to you <br /> <br />Love overshadowed by perilous lives <br />Shaming words and pointing fingers <br />Now winter’s snow to warm spring rain <br />A healing heart slowly emerges <br />Slashes sewn by forgiveness <br />And blood pumped by acceptance <br />So great a thrashing for freedom <br />Old lovers, new lives <br /> <br /> <br />http: //allpoetry.com/poem/4549643<br /><br />Kim Schilling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/old-lovers-2/