Poem by R.M. Dolin, January 1, 2024
Shattered Pieces
It’s easy enough to fall in love,
especially with someone as profound
as you. A tender touch, a gentle smile,
the warm way you hold me at night
to reassure my anxious soul,
this is all that’s required.
It’s equally easy to fall
out of love as things get
hard, or stale, or the path
we’re on becomes fraught with obstacles
so overwhelming we lose track
of both our distant horizon
and shared sense of navigation.
Real love lives between
our first embrace and a
final farewell I pray never comes.
I know our love is real because
when you shattered my heart into
a million broken pieces,
I couldn’t prevent myself from loving you
a million times more.
Background poem for the novel, “The Dangling Conversation.” Kyle pleads with Nadia to reconsider.
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