Love Poetry: Carpe Diem

by NaTalia A. McLeod
(Dillon, S.C., USA)

'Feelings of foreshadowed deja vu
are summoned by every song playing...
As I listen,
I am recalling sentiments
of future events.
-Remembering the way i felt as the
words "maybe we can still be friends"
makes a landing on my ears,
not yet spoken from your lips
but i know that it is coming.
-These are more than words
with a catchy tune that I'm humming.
I have an unexplainable feeling of relativity
and a strong sense of belonging...
singing songs about losing someone
I have yet to fully fall in love with.
Reoccurring dream that I honestly wish
I could forget.
--I haven't even given my heart away
and i already regret not keeping
it to myself.
Ironically...
I've already forgiven you
for tears that have yet to manifest
as a result of the heartache lying dormant
inside of my chest
... that is, until an unknown moment
when you'll choose to express
emotions that are not currently evident...
presently irrelevant;
until a series of seemingly
random & meaningless events happen,
leaving me alone by myself...
thinking back in retrospect
as I attempt to make sense of all of it.
Questioning where our love went.
-Mentally reviewing and looking for
any clues, signs, or hints
that will give insight as to when
you lost interest...
when my love became insufficient
or how we gradually over time drifted and
became more distant
...and just before I give up I'll remember
the one thing I forgot to factor in.
-We are only human,
and no matter how hard we try
we can not give anything permanence.
...That nothing lasts forever and even
this structure known to man as time has an end,
but until then or that undetermined moment
my heartbreak becomes latent,
I've decided to live by one rule,
Carpe diem, and love you.'

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