No. 72 , Where Has All The Love Gone? , 2012

Where has all the love gone
Vanished all of it , no longer on?
And was it more than a word
With letters that spell absurd?
And really was its essence anything
After twenty six years I'm wondering?
Once the 'The nice guy' to have close .
And now a cold shoulder overdose
Character assassinated in a hotel room
Was a romance's final portent of doom.
Where has all the love gone?
A peck 'good bye' and ring on ?
No longer a marriage consummate
A bond gone past its sell- by date.



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I've been devoted , faithful and true
I meant it when I said I loved you
A passion left to decay and subside .
The end of this roller coaster ride.
Where has all that love gone?
Only memories and things bygone
No dinner parties with flowing wine
And conversations of things sublime
A marriage that was once content:
A banker's loan now used and spent
Where has all the love gone now?
In a vacuum , held by ugly row.
Broken dreams and hopes corrode
The tarmac of this no- through- road.





I loved with mind and body and breath
And now I watch Eros writhe in death.
I failed my words in bitter poet's sigh
And fooled myself I had a painter's eye,
And for that I paid the price it's true
Wrapped in my self I neglected you.
You do not see the tears flow free
As they evaporate towards the sea
But do not fret and do what you must
This heart , though not steel, will not rust .
Where has all the love gone so soon ?
A morning's passion done by noon.
Koulla , I really loved you until this very day
For you it's gone;  and now my love will fray.....

No.73: Life ...2012:

' Life ...... the main cause of death..'

No. 74: The Unknown Victims, 2012

Here we lie ,in our millions
Battered, butchered and charred.
Severed limbs , and decapitated.
A testimony to your cause
Did it not occur to you ,
That we too had children
And warm blood pulsing in our veins?

Here we lie, the vanquished
Anihilated tortured victims
Whose lives were short and captive
The focus of your joy ..
Did you ever consider that one day
Just like us fallen turkeys
For the feast of others you  are  slain?