Love Poems

	Lucy Sometime not long ago life changed me Smiles became less selfish to their need The sorrowful sense of burning days Became an ebb in the changing now Slivers of doubt pointed their fingers To the sky and hid their strange humour In the camouflage of something future Something that I, as yet, had swallowed The petty smirk and sly wink at love Ran itself into the dark where it lost sense And at the base of the sea my sharpness Muffled itself in the murk and mire of then For her face raises these questions in me As if those blue-blind eyes mark somehow The simple ignorance of marching time As if somewhere the camouflage fails Her tiny body, frail as a single lung-full Pulls some puppet string from rib to rib And tugs willingly at the laughter inside Sending myriad flutters to more tomorrows The tinkling crystal of vocal experiment Gives resonance to what was a muted string So now the sinews and signs of a weak heart Break their reins and beat once again © David Incoll 2001
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