Saturday, March 04, 2006

love in the city of joy.


Little pieces of paper flutter and fly
over the pile of garbage,
somewhere in the city.
Little pieces of paper.
Some square some not.
Browned by time and misuse?
Unloved,
Folded into little crevices
in someone’s cupboard,
Found one spring cleaning day.
Found and torn away.
Torn and thrown away.
Little pieces of paper flutter and fly.
Passersby pass by,
Nobody bothers to look at them.
Nobody thinks of finishing this jigsaw.
If they had had the time,
they would have met
an unspoken love affair,
written in green ink
on the back of old envelopes.

4 comments:

Lil Mizfit said...

the dance of the lost, torn paper... free from the whole...lost little urchins. dirty and smiling.

concerned citizen said...

Now they are gone & forgotten. Ink & paper melted into the ground.

uglygirl said...

wow!
both of you complete the poemlets.

uglygirl said...

welcome back love.