Alan Strand - Romance’s Shadow

Get off my heart
Heavy stone of pain,
Let my spirit
Rise from the dead
And soar
Above this loneliness,
Let me glide
Towards a golden sunrise.

Where is Love?
My re-inflating heart is yearning
For the savage rush
Of lust
That precedes the falling.

I am here,
Hiding inside
Romance’s shadow.

(Rocky Point beach, lying in the sun,2002/08/12.) .

Alan Strand

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