Sage's Promise... Two-for-two Tues.

Every year PAD'S two-for-two Tues. includes this prompt: 
write a love poem. write an anti-love poem

Maybe in time her heart will not lurch

At the mention of you

Where the color blue

And thought of you merge

Maybe, in time she will find

Who she was before your ‘love’

Fell, lifeless as the glove

A straggler left behind

Maybe in time, Time's ripple effect

Will ripple beyond her reach

...the waves that wash across the beach

Not charged with echoes they resurrect

And, maybe, maybe after a while

Time will, as sage's promise, 'heal’

And then maybe she will feel

The laughter that wears her smile

© Janet Martin