innocent

Young love
Originally uploaded by grahamfkerr

innocent love
the scent still lingers
but the cake's been eaten up.
it'll come back to haunt you
as crap

and you'll wonder
at the transformation.

innocent love.
now how did that recipe go?
it'll never quite be the same
but maybe
someday
i'll mess it up
and it'll somehow come out
even better than before
otherwise
my mouth will grow numb
to the imitation
of what was once
thrilling

and we try so hard
to recreate that look in our eyes
but
if you look closely
you can see
the effort,
the difficulty with which that imitation
of the look of love comes.

and the point of that look is that
it is free and easy and painless and innocent.
so where does it come from
when that innocence is gone?