Love Forbids the Dark

A poem about the importance of the growth of the heart and finding new love

Photo by Ameen Fahmy on Unsplash

I wonder if you think about me anymore
As twilight drifts across your sleepy face?
A willow branch across the moon, a shadow
Across the bare feet of a sleepwalker’s swoon.
Is the bed as warm as it was? Or was I
so easily replaced? Is it still the same
hourglass shimmering Hamlet’s specter? A
Hallway…