At The Gate.

-At The Gate.-

"Another summer has already come and gone."
He muttered under his breath at the edge of the pond,
As the sun slowly drifted along the top of the hills,
He sat shuttering from early falls chills.

Memories playing through his pounding mind,
Still feeling her fingers so tightly entwined.
And as tears started to trickle down his face,
He could still feel their final embrace.

The sky was black with a faint silver light,
Coming from the full moon that night.
Wolves were howling in the forest beyond the house,
And the final fire in his heart was doused.

Love alive in his eyes, he stood remembering hers,
With vodka dancing in his breath, his good-bye was slurred.
And the path was cascaded from footsteps filled with hate,
From the man who would never again go beyond the gate.

© Jenna Elphick
September 13, 2006.

- - The meaning of this poem, wasn't a lost love, it was a death. And she died after their first kiss and he never got over it, hence the reason it says man instead of boy near the end. It's kind of confusing, but yeah, that's the meaning of this. - -