Love Spectrum

It's not that all
love changes.
It's the longing component
tied as it is

to the future.

.

It's hope that changes,
the loosened grip of time.
Love becomes
an evening,
a meeting on the stair,
a tiny reminder
that sinks deep
and brings a tear. 
.
They want this poem to last,
and it refuses to become real and daily.
Even love looks backward and
the meetings end in tears.