Love Lost

Sue Cartwright • 21 January 2022

A poem about coming to terms with loss and sadness

Love Lost - A Poem by Sue Cartwright, Spiral Leaf


Love lost, sacred slumber;


Dreaming solitary dreams;


In a drift of white thistled nights;


Surrounded by darkness;


Softened only by my own inner light.



Memories tormented;


Played out on a reel, segmented;


Seeing clearly but senses deadened;


Wanting to just swirl there forever;


And not wake up again.



But hope charges in on a grey mantle;


Where words of love are written;


Where all is forgiven;


Where fears become feint whispers in the wind;


No longer hidden.



Love lost, sacred slumber;

Dreams are a gift, a wonder;

A window into the soul;

To see things we need to discover;

No longer forbidden.



Sue Cartwright

Spiral Leaf




Thank you for sharing!

 for you, for me and for Mother Nature

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