…that I had known love

I always thought that I had known love
with all its harmonies and contrasts
lightly touched strokes of emotions
that painted their colours into my mind
in a tapestry of longing and silence
yet like snowflakes, are ever fleeting
love was always so fragile
I existed in a complex dichotomy
where the soft ripples of memories
always drew me back to the pain
and then suddenly I found the one
the one who with their silence
spoke to me of all those things
that had forever haunted me
and now I know, why yesterday
has followed me everywhere
© Ann Bagnall