common collection

As with everything....a work in progress

One enters to be met

with a greeting of warm

festivity

 

Sweaters and champagne

keep the guests

cordial and engaged

 

Small chatter drifts

from greeting to greeting

interlaced with light smiles

and hugs

 

Lover's and friends

mingle, as they gaze

the decoration.

 

Displayed triumphantly

on the mantel

a focal collection

and pride

of our gracious host:

--the hearts of lovers past

 

Small, glass boxes

gleaming with distinction

cast the  flickering light

from the fire below

 

Arranged by degree

of atrophy

--yet with keen consideration

  to decor

 

Stacked with purpose

so that each viewer

may indulge on the

definition

of derision

 

Each heart

struggles; floating

aimlessly in dispair

 

One must certainly notice

the hearts of yellow:

distinct, with ghastly

blue veins

coarsing throughout

 

As well as the collection

of blues:

cobalt, azure, navy

each uniquely cold

and callous

 

Spread throughout

are the deprecating

hearts of black and red

choking

writhed with misery

and disease

 

A collection

spanning a lifetime

One has many questions

and quandaries

But now is not the time

for the bell has wrung

tis time for tea.