Love rarely breaks your heart

Love rarely breaks your heart

The lack of it does

Try it on for size

It can fit just as easily on you

As it did on me

It is in its absence

The world turns

To face the other way

It is not easy

To stand still or keep upright

When the bottom falls out of the floor

Everything tilts this way or that

Even familiar things

Have the look of a grotesque

What did gargoyles ever do

To be caught in flagrante

There are tears and then there are tears

I wonder if you know the difference

Perhaps you needed to be there

Visual humour is a bit like that

I guess alcohol has its compensations

It can give meaning to a pratfall

When there are no bananas

Sometimes the only way out

Is to follow the signs

The difficulty lies in holding a focus

When the locus of control

Is sitting on the fence

Waiting for the right time

To pawn the goldwatch

You never wear because

Time stood still

When the door closed

However, that does assume

You had the chance to go through it

In the first place

Nothing good ever came of denial

Ask St Peter

Sometimes you just have to own up

To the truth

Take it on the chin

Strap on the watch

Step out of time

Slip out from under the cloud

Catch the rain on both sides of the page

Although perhaps not all at once

Embrace the change

It was never love

That broke your heart

Losing it did.