Prelude <br />It may sound like an elegy yet it rings like the love song of parakeets <br />When the heart of a man becomes the abyss of confused maladies, <br />It speaks as though bidding despedida even though it barely said bienvenida <br />A moment’s glance and a second’s touch linger like Mediterranean lavender in summertime… <br /> <br /> <br />What says a man’s heart when it does not know the words of the dirge it sings! <br />Bury the fury of love, my dear heart, and hope it rises refreshed <br />Else, let lie and let slumber the heart that feared to love yet was loved <br />Gone too soon, she melts into the bowels of the earth – her elusive rhythm dances to a familiar song – the elegy of a romance too soon forgotten <br /> <br />A maiden’s heart only stirs up the wrath of love and tends it not! <br />Sate the flames of love lest it consumes itself and all along with it! <br />Let the hesitant heart thud with the pulse of her own blood for she will never know what harmonies lie in the tempo of two hearts beating as one <br />Gone too soon, her illusions of uncertainty leave her wondering… <br />Will she ever know what it feels like to live and love again? <br /> <br />The dawn of a lovers’ heart is foolishness and impulse <br />Hopes and fantasies, sometimes true, mostly false <br />At midday, his heart races with the affection of a million others <br />The sun of possibilities dies when day into dusk weathers <br />When night falls and my heart is lonely, I groan yet I grow and, inside, I glow <br />With the maturity of heart that two decades of loving have taught me <br />Has love left too soon – gone forever or destined to return someday to nest in the meadows of safety? <br />Perhaps she will risk an unsightly foray of unsavoury hearts, who knows.<br /><br />Rafael Yaw Kumi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gone-too-soon-4/
