Your Love Was a Firefly

A love poem

As a child, I chased the fireflies In the dark, under starry skies Their blue light, a dancing rainbow A sight innocent, yet hard to follow

I caught one when I was just five Held it tight, so it wouldn’t fly It tickled my palm, and then it ceased Flamed out, like a star deceased

Years later, I found love in you Gravitating towards your embrace, so true But there was another corpse, not in my hand This time, it was buried deep in my heart’s land

The firefly was just a fleeting thing A memory that I couldn’t bring But you, my love, was supposed to stay Yet you left and took my heart away

Now I’m left alone in the dark Chasing fireflies like an endless mark Hoping to catch one, and keep it alive Before it, too, fades away and dies.

Indirah Ambrose Theodore McDowell Pablo Pereyra Leah Lynch William J Spirdione Dr. Preeti Singh Henya Drescher Spyder B.R. Shenoy Henery X Lubna Yusuf Dr. Gabriella Korosi

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