Challenge
Tis time for you to enter the Wayback Machine and hunt down your longest poem written with the most amount of reads ... likes and repost don't count. The winner receives a Certificate called:
Longfellow Penmanship Award. I will be choosing the winner based on content, style and form. Under your piece, post the date when it was first submitted by you.
For this challenge ... do not tag anyone other than me in the comment box as: @Danceinsilence ... to do otherwise, eliminates you from potentially winning.
A Love Story Appendix
Fading memories blow through my hollowed out soul,
wrapped in echoes of tormented silence and pain
riding hot desert winds, past the crumbling facade
of a dry empty ghost town where tumbleweeds reign.
Like emotional stretch marks carved into my heart,
inky shadows lie twisted, and deeply embossed
in striations and patterns that spell out your name,
filled with acid-rain tears, spilled for all that I’ve lost.
When I let myself ponder the cruelty of fate,
the unfairness twists inside my guts like a knife.
Since you left me behind without saying goodbye,
faded gray shades of loneliness color my life.
In my dreams you’re still here, warmly sharing my bed...
then I wake all alone, with your voice in my head.
(from May, 2018)