Dissolving

The light in her eyes slowly died

not all at once

but as the wearing away of stone

through wind and rain

That is how love ends,

not as a cataclismic event

but the inexorable dripping of blood

from a cut the will never heal

Sometimes truth can tear itself apart

her truth, your truth

as walls are built around our worth

and battlements manned

to protect out reality

Love flows through our lives

dissolving hard edges and harder opions

eroding the memories of pain and mistrust

turning stone to sand

as footprints leave the tracks at high tide

only to be washed away again