Red Sails in the Sunset
how I coined the phrase that marks your memory
deep red ink in my book of poetry
This isn't goodbye
This is acknowledging a faulty compass that led me to your shore
Where I lingered too long
losing sight of what was real.
You were
ever so briefly
just a mirage not meant to last
that did not last.
Boldly, proudly, I wrote how
I am all the more
fully realized for recognizing so
for stepping through and closing that door.
Meekly and weakly, stumbling over supposedly burnt bridges
Drawing blood on pale silks,
skinned knees and torn up palms
I'd still crawl over the mess
bewitched by your charms
and crawl back to your mirage.
Each page, red ink, a different story, a different version
2.0 was lost long ago and replaced, again and again and again
Funny how the saved feature erases or adds on
As I'll save another you as another note in my memory book.
Another Red Sail
16 Tuesday Oct 2012
Sincerely, Lori 