Amazing how love catapults to amazing heights only to overthrow you in a nosedive, heart-stopping fall! 

Yet it's the most beautiful and elusive miracle of creation.

So -

the sun was out 

today -

it outshone colour 

of every floral

still in bloom;

the heart 

still held damp

of gloom

was residual 

from yesterday.

Feet 

jumped up 

to skip and step out 

to affirm - 

no more

not any more

let me not honour

being slave

with imprisonment 

within self imposed 

doom.

Love or no love 

from another,

in spirit of self preserve

let's breathe 

free.