By jlorenz@saber.net
Date: 13 July 1999

EMERALD

Emerald fields dancing green
Silent before crystalline tears
Glistening on a chilly pane of glass
White lily petals
Silent, still
In fragile remembrance 
On a lonely window sill: 
Remembering 
In the prism of eternity 
To stop a moment
In rueful reminiscence 
Of times spent picking flowers in the rain;
Gathering colors of sun-yellow, taffeta-white and blushing pink,
When, once we were together as two buds,
Each branching, growing toward the other 
But something snapped
And I didn't yet perceive that
Our love lay broken
Or that your kindness
Falling around me like soft snowy petals  
Had already turned to hateful, ugly fruit
Swollen with pride
Monstrous as a pod
Bearing the seeds of hate--
And then my heart grew heavy too
With malice and unforgiveness; 
And ugly recriminations that scattered
Our life to the winds 
Leaving only solitude and  sadness
And tears with which to weave
One last multi-colored rainbow  
To grace
Our emerald field
And throw 
One last bouquet  
To the crystal winds
Of what what might have been
Love's wonderous reign. 
Seen through a clearing 
In a moment of time
Now it's gone!