First Love

 

Once crinkly blue eyes,

Emanating a lifetime of unconditional love, laughter and wisdom,

Altered and occupied

with the stark gray of intense penetrating pain and frenzied panic

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Crying out my pet name

for assistance and deliverance,

before plunging into depths of the unknown

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Lifetime roles reversed

in the flash of an instant,

Forevermore changing

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Heart heaved and gut wrenched

with blatant recognition

of no turning back

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Grateful now –

for emancipation from pain’s bondage

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Knowing, expecting, anticipating, acknowledging –

does not make the transition any easier

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There is no replacement for this first love!

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© by rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011

(repost)

Entry for The Gooseberry Garden
Poetry Picnic – Week 7
“Love and Loss”