Irish blood breeds velvet eyes
Or so I’ve since observed
Since you last revealed the skies
I’ve kept your memory well preserved.
Alas, upon a portrait tainted green with the ugliest of envies,
Shadows cast confusion, the years go by in their turning,
I find it easier more so each day to laugh at the mistakes of the past,
I feel as though I’m learning, still finding it hard to conceive
That everything I learn I can not believe through the greatest irony of contradiction.
That I should come to accept a reality without you seems no fair deal
To a soul upon the leash of his heart strings.
David Lacey
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/shadows-cast-confusion/
