Sometimes Poem by StevieC Poet

Sometimes I hear your voice, rasping, cruel, releasing venom drip by drip,
burning like acid on contact.
Remembering instead, a winter sun and our cheeks brushing softly together,
whispered breath, misting, whilst kissing.
Hands moving with rhythmic gentleness, stirring buried passion and
unspoken desire.
To joyously asphyxiate within the depths of your eyes,
those limpid lagoons of dark dreamless craters, that swallowed me whole-
willingly…..
The knowledge of the concord we created,
sustained me through the rhapsodic symphony ofa slowly disintegrating love.
Beyond the overture, the opus lost its wonderment,
and magic was replaced with tedium…
Yours never mine.
Yielding arms that once contained my enslaved soul
now form a barrier between us.
Eyes that shone lucidly with warmth,
now hold a glacial gaze that never thaws.
Lips once so softly pressing onto mine
Now unsmiling, bitter and mercenary.
When your heart is at war with your head
and denial is easy.
Sometimes I forget…
only sometimes…
that once you also loved me.