LOVE RETROACTIVE
Love retroactive,
Appreciates warts and all.
Shoulda coulda been.
Tender, she forgets
provocation, frustration.
No so bad, really.
Disappointment stops
sweeping passion, pleasure. No,
don’t go back again.
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LOVE LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
For just a moment
intimacy connected
mouth to heart to eye.
We dared open
pain, promise and differences
gently, with respect.