Your love has faded
like the desert sun
as it sets slowly
in the cold and shivering night.
I come to you
walking quietly as if
you are a faint mirage
in the hot and feverish desert.
My passion will sear and sizzle alone
like the desert sand in the midday sun.
John RC Potter is an international educator and gay man from Canada, living in Istanbul. His story, “She Got What She Deserved” (Literary Yard, June 2023), has been named one of the Top 100 Projects in the 7th Annual Launch Pad Prose Competition. John RC Potter – Author Website (author-blog.org) https://twitter.com/JohnRCPotter
You have captured both the still smoldering heat of lost love and the acceptance that life goes on despite the loss. What a lovely poem!