Unrequited Love Is Happy Valentines Day Discarded Poem by Terence George Craddock

in an age of cellphone photography
unrequited love is a photograph taken
of a battered chipped blue dumpster

flash shot taken in a dark lonely street
by Lindsey Turner on February 23,
2008, where when exact time unknown...

taken in the dark subject object
moved to stage highlight unknown
discarded (wrapped, unopened

Valentines Day gift with heart-shaped
helium balloons) big Happy Valentines
Day letters shouting out screaming love...

a gift of love sits discarded in a dirty dumpster
an unrelenting waste symbol love coldly totally
rejected without remorse forgiveness compromise

a gift of love a deflated heart rejected discarded
waiting to share space with rotting vegetables
rats or go home free gift for dumpster shopper...


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock