Love Passes So Quickly
I know what is, but there is a part of me
that shall never believe that I have lost you.
How can you not want to try again?
I would never have believed
you would deny me anything you could grant me.
I listen for a sign of tenderness in your voice,
I can’t help but let hope linger, but the sign never comes.
You look at me as if we had never been.
You are distant and cold
and I am powerless to change your disdain.
How do lovers become strangers?
At nightfall, memories of what was assault me,
and dreams of what we hoped for taunt me.
How can it be that you no longer remember
pressing your lips next to mine, or sliding your hands
over my hips, or laying your head upon my breast?
I can’t escape your smell, taste or touch.
Why did you enter me, if you were not going to stay?
How have you forgotten it all?
How has love, for you, so quickly passed?
~ Cristina Jill Mosqueda ~
