Love Damns

 The playlists have changed

At first dark, painful

As if she were reaching for a black void

And numbness, not necessarily death

But a place without the burden of emotion

Without the burden of a heart.

And then the songs changed,

The singers began to speak of yearning,

Of love…...not quite perfect

But hard and true.

These were songs she hadn’t

Put in rotation until the last few days

And i knew they weren’t about me

And it wouldn’t be long

Until I went to the front door 

To wait for,

And she wouldn’t show

And in his arms she would be again

And all of my friends will say I’m a fool again,

But as she loves him,

I love her.

And love has damned us both.