Love Letters

By Melissa McMahan

And love is devastation

stripped to the core

it is blissful misery

too close to be so far

you're only there when I

close my eyes and dream

feel my soul is drained

storm clouds in my heart

Love letters written

in the sands of time

wash away in the tide

leaving nothing behind

The sound of loneliness

is all that you can hear

never to have your love

is how cruel fate can be

People say as time goes by

that you'll learn to forget

I know the truth to be a lie

and only fool cannot see it

Dressed in blue silver dust

reached out to the open sky

then float on a dream cloud

tears like sun-filled rainbows

The acrobat alone in the air

who you treat like a clown

if love is really the answer

then where is the answer at

As innocent eyes turn colder

in the darkness of the world

exhaled into a ring of smoke

the ash blowing in oblivion