Spousal apparition

The ghost of a marriage past

Nothing left now but a book with pictures on its pages

Haunting smiles of a wedding day past

Loving couple family and friends

kodachrome memories of days past

Vintage pages of a marriage past

Crushed dreams burnt umber edges

Flashes of what could have been

Dusty, filled with cobwebs

Misaligned corners

Misaligned lives

Jumbled pages

Jumped conclusions

Double exposures

Jealousy’s green tint

Restoring nothing

Salvaging even less

Dimming light of trust
Vividly transparent

vaguely wanting
hardly needing
barely mourning love
I close the book

revelations of my life
reminding me
haunting me
hurling me
into a lifetime ago
exhuming regrets

burying the past

I place the book

In the trash