R.M. Dolin, April 30, 2024 It’s not that you don’t say, I love you, it’s the hesitant wayyou look like someone taste-testing spinach.I can’t describe it any more than I can tell you the color of cold, but it’s something short of certain.Love should be …
Read MoreLast Look at Love
R.M. Dolin, April 24, 2024 Rain clouds the sky more than this momentcan wash mist off memories too tender to ever again be touched. Your lifeless eyes hold a truth I no longer deny, devoid of sadness and regret while hiding sorrow’s last look at …
Read MoreAll We Can Do
R.M. Dolin, April 23, 2024 She’s locked in a life that tears her soul so deeply dark clouds of doom hover like an umbrella in rain deflecting any form of light that dares to enter, dashing all hope of ever finding her rainbow. You know …
Read MoreMy Good Name
R.M. Dolin, April 22, 2024 I am more than a toy built up only to be destroyed for your amusement. I earned the right to live outside a world condensed into a single room where everyone judges me standing accused, not knowing it was you …
Read MoreDo You Remember
R.M. Dolin, April 15, 2024 Pages are meant for turning, moments meant for passing, yet some linger like shadows brought to life under a fog enshrouded lamppost on a misty night. Silent and distant, providing little comfort no matter how much their presence is welcomed. …
Read MoreI Came to Paris
R.M. Dolin, April 10, 2024 After things blew up, I vowed to never again visit Paris, but then I did, needing to painfully wander memory-laced boulevards one last time. To coldly cross cobblestones that no longer support me, yet somehow settle my soul and draw …
Read MoreMasquerade Dreams
R.M. Dolin, March 10, 2024 My heart is certain we’ve met before but, it may have been a dream masquerading as desperate desire.
Read MoreNew York City Marathon
R.M. Dolin, February 28, 2024 My vector turns decidedly east to await horizons hidden in the promise of shadows. It’s still winter with the race nine months out but already my runs grow increasingly long, as if it’s possible to outlast demons forever at my …
Read MoreScattered Cobblestones
R.M. Dolin, February 23, 2024 You can no more change the contrasting colors of sunset than you can rescue tired bones from long forgotten sidewalks, or keep someone from leaving even though they’re still in love. Paris paints me in taunting echos of laughter and …
Read MoreDay After Today
R.M. Dolin, February 15, 2024 Loving you is the easiest most wonderful thing I’ve ever done, or will ever do again. You brought a profound peace to my life; a tenderness I cherished each time we were together. Even while half-a-world separates us, this day …
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