Chapter 16

Love’s Recovery -His View-

Love’s Recovery

-His View-

Gone, my Heart

Gone my heart, her steady beating

lost now our joy in meeting

as from my world she’s come unseating

to leave my heart lonely beating

Torn, the page that we wrote

except for treasured simple notes

sent to her to express my love

coming of summer, and happy doves

I, too weary to fight and slug

although I’d like to undo the mugs

who in their avarice did unplug

vital connection to living love

Yet at the edge, when reading notes

sits a scream to fracture throat

to damn those who “tricking” wrote

lies to have our loving broke

Needful, and Desiring

When here, she was inspiring

and I, I was greatly admiring

of her beauty and her ways

the things she promised

as I listened to what she’d say

Even though weary of trouble’s come

as risk I’d take to have her won

if were possible, you know that son

early, her heart was mine

a wonder and wonderful elder find

I enjoyed her presence, heart and mind

seeking then and now to truly find

her close with hand in mine

I ask, “Are you out there again to find?

Is there a chance you again be mine?

Needful, and desiring, myself to find

somehow this love, my girl,

won’t leave my mind

her the love I’d longed to find

down my years, to life refine

What to do

I to consider what to do

do I seek her, or someone new

but this was answered just before

saying this out loud, where it came true

My heart was hers, this is true

that had not changed, now hopeful to

find a way to reach her through

what had passed, still bleeding true

My heart for sure aching

wondering, “Is she to another love making?”

or had she remained mine true

after interlope running through

And so, I chose a friend to ask

to establish truth, as lie unmask

hoping to restore a working reach

to inspire my Love again to reach

There to find when sending note

found a massage Monique had wrote

a recent time before that made me choke

surprised that there was such a note

With this a flash of hopeful hope

to stop my heart as read what wrote

Where are you? She misses you

and wonders what has happened,”

And so, a message wrote quickly

sent, then to wait, anxiously

but much was convincement needed

as much mistrust was months long breeded

Not an easy task to do

restoring self as actual, true

that one, a lover, bold and true

faithful, no interloper new

Expecting nothing, yet message sent

honest, I explained with harshness vent

how troubles had been our way sent

and all the ill that interloper meant

Interplay of Restore

Not at first were truths accepted

words and phrases then rejected

but lines of proof to find their way

evidence that came in form misplay

as shown, was hack which was in play

for longest time, then thrust away

once truth seen of hurtful ways

Slow to turn was common friends mind

but finally got through to her in time

then she to reach my Love

who suffered harsh from missing love

as Monique, our common friend

sought to restore Love’s aching heart

nearly destroyed while us apart

More quickly did my Love believe

even though long had been her grieve

just how this was for her I do not know

as travel this road, I did not go

for me had been someone there

who seemed to be my Love, with care

who was not true or even there

I was deceived while she to grieve

she to cry while I take in lies

from a stranger, restating words from past

to closely flavor our interact

as slow was twisted the intent, the plan

to cut from wallet and life of older man

everything, love, heart, get all they can

Harsh the hacker’s heart

to steal social contact part

take away the line once true

breaking in to make her blue

and act as she, old man to

making demands he would not do

my Love, the one truly true

Tentative reach restored for each

as friend, Monique, was friend to each

her helping hand, to aid her girlfriend more

and I, a recipient even more, love to be restore

trust to rebuild, assurances made

is this my girl, or are we slayed

trust, trust, trust, for each a must, be made

To Imagine

It was a day of discovery

a day of horror and then recovery

as I found no familiar sound

in the words today I found

In the course of conversation

something came up is hard to mention

yet I realized my heart was broke

a deeply resonating and hurtful note

I found that what was wrong

between this person who didn’t belong

and myself, the losing one

my emotions turning dark, no joy, no Sun

Her words, her ways had changed

her sayings were not the same in play

meant to extract from me in every way

whatever element of self she chose that day

Disregarding my need in sway

to play my emotions for her win

as my effort for good are turned to sin

as “I” go toward the basest of state, at her lend

Unaware till now, did not defend

and after falling to her trap

I finally come looking, fighting back

to cast aside this hurtful one

This hacker that into our lives had come

through to do all the harm they could

deceiving, to do in all love’s good

and burn it down, they thought they would

Looking back, wide mirror view

I should have known, seen right on through

and now I see where differences are

between my love, this stranger far

Clear now, I see through fine

the deceitfulness their troubled mind

as they to gain by leaching ways

anything to steal, in any way

Crying Souls

With common goals we moved fore

not want repeated score

from years and years of time before

Love was ours to take and own

yet free each other from old love’s clone

as all before leads to love’s narrowed cone

And then, a sudden end to come

a taking away of goals and sums

that were our guide then and in time to come

You were gone, another there pretending

deceived with expert care, I did not know of ending

until, until, a sudden stroke, for defending

Realized, I soon devised a change

to save, if possible, what must remain

within each heart and mind, our home frame

Yet for a time, before, between

before your fresh rediscover

between love and love again

Crying souls asking why

what had happened, why love dies

with prayers to ask that this not be

And again you to find me

I to find the heart of you

start again, fresh and new

Unique Monique

Uncomfortable and disbelieving

but yet not going, not leaving

or rejecting words fresh said

She to take in my words

their intentions closely wed

to you, her closest friend

And I to trust this connection

as she’s the one you mention

along conversation’s way

As I to trust, as I must

this link to recovery’s day

seeking to again find you

Here I seek to ease your pain

through friend, as family’s sister

and win you again

As you have a precious friendship

with unique Monique

and her ever present care

Again to Trust

Trust, an action a word

with motions that are a must

And in our interactions new

become something of a thrust

As I ask that, for a time, you try

to lend my words some trust

As I come red-faced to you

with supplications as I blush

Hoping for the best from you

my words come out in rush

As I’m asking the very most of you

with pain aside, that again you try to trust

Counter-posed

In my mind a worry

that you will not hear me

In my heart an aching

comes just short to kill me

As I’m sure you have and own

within your heart hate to spare me

For just leaving you sudden alone

no hand nor words to show you

All seems lost, not again found

between our hearts once rhyming

How in hell did things go wrong

in their acts and timing

And I to quibble within myself

Do you still want me” worried, longing, pining

Counter-posed

My need for you, your heart was true

and our love need re-finding

Will you accept me again?

Will you reject me and then

seeking another for love’s win

then true forget me?

A Glimmer

Hope that glimmers in the night

hope that all will be coming right

That you will accept my words

that in truth they will be heard

That I had no intent to leave

there was nothing up my sleeve

As plan to see your hurting large

to intrude into your life, then outward barge

My joy, to have you say “I’ll listen!

for all this time, it’s you I’m missing.”

If this comes true, my eyes will glisten

as you take in what good, not at me hissing

A glimmer of hope in my heart stays

as it’s you I want for all my days

Yet I am not sure I have winning ways

to win you back after all these days

And Then

Sending word through Monique

our friend who’s so unique

as to hold your interests best

to aid a broken heart

And then, as I waited

not days, but hours anticipated

came a quiet word urging

and telling of hope residing

Asking, “Where have you been hiding?”

Where did you go, where have you been?”

mysteries in the moment

seemed would never end

And then, my heart to jump

to come alive again

as hope was grand, its effort to mend

two broken hearts

Belief in Us

Belief in us, the we, we were

a love that was not often to occur

Each to have loved more than once

thought each forever, but went askant

Sure we each, the other true

sure before intruder came through

To block and stop chatting new

from each of us, the other to

And in each heart a trust to bloom

could not be brushed away this soon

And for this I am greatly thankful

as my heart remains like love-filled bank

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