To the moon my Darling.

Tonight I'm yours

but my thoughts are soiled.

I would love you

to the moon and back

but the stairway to heaven

has been severed into two

beyond repair

leaving only splinters -

a gap too far to jump.

I bid you adieu.

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This could be read as a number of things & I love the embedded mystery. Is the narrator addressing someone who's jilted him/her or bemoaning social distancing? Or maybe an array of impossibilities . . . sometimes certain people don't jive with one's wavelength & it becomes an insurmountable gap. This is the essence of thought-provoking scribbles! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Chris Shaw]

It's over. Something has wrenched these two apart for that stairway to heaven to sever. Sad poem.

Chris

[Patricia]

Ouch! That was a lot in such few words, awesome!

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Pat.:)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sometimes we are unable to go to the moon together---even as it beckons, if love is severed, if trust is severed...]
only one rides in that ship...very lonely poem.

[andrew mitchell]

Its funny My mum feels betrayed that my dad died 10 years ago leaving her on her own. They have known each other since they were 10. This was loosely based around that severance. Thanks for reading J.