LOVE ONCE

 I wonder what happened to our  love.
We once  fit together,hand in a glove

Hands  which had waved like fronds in  harmony,
Now behaved with  silent, consensual ,strangers’  parsimony.

In the silver coated mirror in my brain,
I reflect on  love with urgent growing pain.

What was the dreadful  moment our   love cracked?
Was hell  awakening,  just behind our backs?

I sit  here in the evening,   cold frost-chilled.
In loving  I ‘ve become  entirely without skill

What value can any strange new love possess?
Is it  more than this, or is it always  less?