Where Does Love Go?

Written for dVerse Poetics – Where does love go?
Our host, Kim, invites us to write a poem, taking
the title from the question, “Where does love go?”
Here’s where the prompt took me .

You used to reach for me in the dark,
a reflex, like breathing.
Now your hands lie still as stones
at the bottom of a river.

I search your eyes for the old light ….
that flicker that once said you, always you ….
but find only distance,
a room I no longer have the key to.

We still share a table, a bed, a name,
the careful choreography of two people
pretending the music hasn’t stopped.
But I hear it …..

the silence
where your laughter used to live,
the space
between us wide as a frozen field.

I don’t know the moment it left.
Love doesn’t slam doors;
it simply walks out
while you’re looking the other way.

NAR©2026

This is “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” by the Righteous Brothers

Poetics: Where does love go?

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