Rebound – Mark Fowler

Magill, South Australia

you left me and took the idea of myself with you
you called our love forever filled me with a fuzzy vision of everlastingly bliss

you left me exposed
my emotions
stripped

the music
talks of it
beautiful refrains of letting go living without you
but they play out inside two minutes
the rejection burns on

and in desperation
to compensate
emotional scars lost time left over self
i look for you in other faces other places

just an essence
a look a giggle a curve of the leg

i obsess
and settle for poor imitations
nights of passionless sex nights of sexless romancing nights and days of nothing

even your name will do but it doesn’t
even your memory might do but it won’t

perhaps time
perhaps not

rebound
may be losing you
finding me
moving on

Bio: Mark says this poem was written to explore the pain of a broken love and the efforts of the chastened coming to grips with a new reality.

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