Dark Winter

I remember what happened
after I lost 
my love,
my life of dark winter
without passion or depth
fizzled out
drifting me in black mood.

Happy

"Happy" isn't what she hoped it would be,
love is a mystery - 
desire a depth haunted by
inevitable imperfections.

I Did Not Love

It was marvelous to discover
that I
did not love.
I dare say, I seemed
all tenderness before you:
But the depth of the absurdity - of genuine idiocy,
that I could love.
I have avoided this.