'Once Upon A Time In A Loneliness Long Long Ago There Lived A Man...' Poem by Dónall Dempsey

There is not
a single second

that I do not
think of you

each and every
moment


of
each and every
day.

Lady! Winter
comes when
you are gone.

I stand forlorn
as a fairy story

waiting to be
-told.

That never will be
- told.

Look! Your smile
still exists
among the bric a brac
of the last time

we met...and kissed.

It lingers like
the last lost leaf

of the one and only tree that will ever be.