This Week: Phrase Prompt
Love for all seasons
This week’s prompt comes from not one but three B-A-R members:
Shalini Nair, Sheethal Susan Jacob and Sulekha Rawat
A minimum of 100 words on the prompt.
Love for all seasons
He loved her when she was sixteen
Sixty summers later
His love for her didn’t falter
He still felt like he did then
In sickness and in health
They had promised to be true
To each other, come what may
Love their only wealth
One sad day he broke his vow
Pulled his hand out of hers
She stood achingly forlorn
Frozen with fear and sorrow
Her heart and mind shattered
Outwardly she was intact
Her eyes though dry, burned
There was nothing left that mattered
He, who went away without a goodbye,
Lingers on her mind, day and night
Why did they have to part so soon?
Her hurting soul seeks to know, why?
By Sulekha Rawat
Linking this poem to BAR
That’s so sad.
Thanks for your comment.
Aah! That must be so hard and heartbreaking for her! But then such is life!
I agree.Thanks
It’s so sad…losing the one we love and having to live without them
It is torture…but we go on living.
Oh so sad and after such a long time! Why?….
Life is not always kind to us, thanks.
That’s a sad one. It’s hardest for the person who’s left behind.
I know, I see it every day. Thanks.
Their love is so beautiful and endless. Sad it may sound but no-one can escape death. A lovely poem.
Death is a reality of life, thanks.
Love just changes form after death, I suppose. Beautifully done, Sulekha.
Thank you so much.
Must be hard to have lived together for so many years. Very well written the forlorn emotions very well depicted.
that didn’t come out right … must be hard to part having lived together for so many years is what I meant to say.
I got you the first time, thanks.
That is sad and sometimes, we never know why…
Life is a roller coaster of joys and sorrows, thanks for your comment.