The Topaz

Prompt from Mindlovemisery's Menagerie

shared with Poets United

I was the topaz

between two diamonds

a Poe-ish love

Paris was a dream

talked of in tree houses

on rainy days

The passion of young love

the sadness of loss

could be tasted

in our tiptoed kiss

and then

I moved away

Just Another Poem

Written 1998 By Me

~

I, in my ignorance,

Thought of them as blind

To all things

They had left behind.

~

I never gave them credit

Of Feeling Love's first bliss

Nor could I see them

Having passion with a kiss.

~

And as I grew much older

With children of my own

I found my parents' blindness

Was not theirs alone.

~

I had indeed forgotten

The passions I swore they'd never seen

Now I was the blind parent

Not completely...

But somewhere in between.