Thursday, April 25, 2024

love/anti-love PAD 9-1

 Past Loves

 

Our past loves are like paints

on an artist’s palette.

Our inward beings

Our personalities

Painted by those young loves.

 

The little boy that asked me to color with him.

The young man who held my books.

The neighbor boy who changed from annoying

to hey not bad—the first kiss.

The first long term relationship

who was difficult to break up with.

The love that just didn’t seem to work out,

but was equally significant.

All the short-term ones.

 

The purples, blues, greens, yellows, oranges, reds

of my soul.

And that one that lasts coming into half a century,

painting my soul with various colors each day.

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