Love @ the Internet

"Has your life been

so bereft
of love that you yet
think of me?"
Will she not ask
when I touch
this flickering image
of her smile?
"I had thought the
dust and dirt
of time would keep us
to an end.
Why dig there now
for our soul
that cannot live or
remember,
Visiting the past,
a tourist
haunt of sadness and
fragile lies?
We loved youth and
are not young,
swam a fecund sea
gone sterile.
We are not there,
you and I;
let love loving be
as we were.
Be gone then, for
life would not
have us and we are
forgotten."
The image fades
in the glass,
cold matrix of light
become pale.

And silent I
cannot reach
within my aged heart
to hold her.
a poem by Dante Dapolonia 2015