Years Of Love. Poem by Sandra Kavanagh Josefsson

As I drink my cup of coffee
and look out the window,
the rain teems down,
I remember our time together
when life was new and fun.

Reminiscing those moments that were so special.
But that time is now over, gone forever.
Years of love that were forgotten
in the hatred of a minute.

How is it that the one we once loved and adored,
is suddenly forgotten and ignored?
How did we get to this place?
Is it the neverending duties of life
or the taking one for granted
that causes this disgrace?

Or is it family trauma that is
carried forward in a down spiralling movement,
that has no place to escape
but to land in the soul of our beloved?

It is soul breaking.
It is soul defeating.
When everything you ever wanted,
lays in pieces scattered all around you.

Is all that love being forgotten
or is it still there?
In that place, deep in your frozen heart,
waiting to thaw.

Verse: Sandra Kavanagh (c) .20241219
Based on Edgar Allen Poe's Quote 'Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute'.