What After Love? Poem by Anita Atina

Now that you’ve moved on
What after love?
Nature abhors a vacuum, its said
I wonder what will assume love’s place

Will bitter emotions seep poison
Draining the heart
Or will some sweet salve
Smooth away the pain

What after love’s rainbow
Of colour and light fades
To a dull shade of gray
Hiding numb, cold monotony

What will let the heart
Believe that love is possible
Beyond a universal concept
Or allow another, to come close again

Tidal questions crash
In relentless waves
What after love?