Falling In Love:)

Falling means diminishing, declining, failing, deteriorating
Why would anyone ever want to fall in love?
But I always want to fall in love...

The falling starts easy
A bruised stubbed toe, pulse, pulse,
Could that be the pulse of burgeoning love?
"Yes!" and I fall head over heels!
I get up and stumble around the red flags
Trip again
Get up and run into love
With arms outstretched like on the beach at the movies
In the wind and the rain
Yelling, "I love you, I've always loved you"
In the wind
In the rain

blindly, I heed the bumps in the road
Yet, I yield
And stand at the fork, confused and foolish
And I need to kiss him
And crawl around on my hands and knees
In the sand at the beach
And I want to do other things
In the sand
At the beach

No more! I have it all together
Am more accomplished, sophisticated-even
Smart in the ways of love
"I think"(shrug).                                               


                                                         Paulette Elozia

Breaking Up

It began with optimism
Almost intimate
Almost complete
Almost peaceful

It wasn't enough...

Losing out on love
is sort of like
missing a layered sunset
All rosy and violet
We almost caught it
But, it had faded to dusk
And it was lost in the long,
cold dead of night
It was over

Eyes burn with memory
Heavy and wet like dew laden grass