Love Does Not Live Here Poem by Dianne Williams

Carrion dreams wreck the night
Vessels crash and burn
While i am weightless

Drawn by the magic of catcalls
A single sound stirs my yearning
I turn and smile enveloped in joy
At being noticed
Years pass and others notice too
Too often too much too incongruent
I turn no more
The sound tainted by the realisation that they notice
But do not see

My limbs grow weary
Spent with mindless floating
Through dreary days
And longer nights
Weighted with grief and mourning
Love does not live here anymore

There are no banners or streamers or wild cries at the staying or the leaving
Just silence punctuated with unspoken dreams
A bittersweet liberation
Short lived and stained
By malice and resentment

Love does not live here anymore