Emotion In Black Vinyl Poem by Sonny Rainshine

His favorite song was
You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling,
yet he had not a clue
what the song was about.
What is this feeling
and why was the singer
accusing him of having lost it?
he wondered.
He himself had never felt love—
or had he?
Still, he found himself
humming it at impromptu times,
and he owned the vinyl single
and the vinyl album,
which he had discovered
at a garage sale.

Sometimes, when he sang the song,
he was the singer,
with his voice deep as the Pacific,
warm as the Caribbean;
other times he was the person
the song was meant for.
Each way it made him cry
and want to die
since he could not lose a feeling
he had never had.