Love Among the Ashes

By: RV Daniels

Walk soft this dusty road
strewn about with

could have

should have

wanted to

didn’t
shadows of all that was

Tread softly love, lest you wake the Beast
that troubled shadow of Love that lived
once upon an old man’s breast
Suckled upon passion
Gorged with the dreams of youth
long lost

Soft now, lover
tread like death, like the ghost of a memory
lest we resurrect the foolish fancies
of our youth in this hoary hour

Just stand there
let the ghost of my heart
love you again