The 99 Poem Challenge
Fox-Trot-9

53. Staccato — Heartbreak Horizon

Remember as you leave me here tonight
How much you now aggrieve me at the sight
   Of you—of you—walking away;
   I'm left to think of you each day
As though I've mourned and buried you, the ghost
Of you still haunting me with what I've lost.

My roving dreams are filled with thoughts of you,
Each one now unfulfilled, untried, untrue,
   Unsaid, unsaid—misunderstood;
   I linger now where you once stood
To greet me with your smiles, my ardent vow
Unsaid upon my lips back then and now.

And now my world lies still upon the brink
Of an eroding will to live and think;
   To die, to die—that's all I want
   When your sweet memory would taunt
Me with the after-image of your eyes,
To die chasing after such gorgeous lies.

Now when I look upon that lone horizon,
Reminded that you're gone, I agonize in
   Your love, your love—forever lost,
   And now forgiven at the cost
Of your sweet self residing in the tomb;
Your love's the cross I bear, a living doom.

You are a lovely rose with bloody pricks,
And every drop from those whereon it sticks
   Still hurts, still hurts—shall never heal
   With the passage of time or feel
The passion that I felt when you loved me—
Still hurts, still pines away in agony.

(To be continued...)

A/N: The Staccato, created by Jan Turner, consists of two or more 6-line stanzas, with internal rhyme scheme interplay between line #1 and line #2 and 2-syllable repeats in Lines #3 and #6.

Meter: Iambic pentameter & iambic tetrameter
Rhyme:

Line 1: (d)a
Line 2: (d)a
Line 3: (EE)b
Line 4: b
Line 5: c
Line 6: (E)c

Line 1: (i)f
Line 2: (i)f
Line 3: (JJ)g
Line 4: g
Line 5: h
Line 6: (J)h...etc.