Elegy of the Unspoken

Unspoken words, like ghosts, they linger – in the silence of our days,

In the spaces between glances, in the quiet unmet gaze.

Love, once a blazing sun, now a memory fading fast,

A specter of what was, in the shadows it has cast.

We danced in whispered dreams, beneath a sky of endless stars,

Now I waltz alone, nursing the echoes of scars.

In your absence, a chasm, wide and deep and stark,

Where once there burned a flame, now rests only the dark.

Remember the laughter, the joy, the shared breath of life?

It cuts, this absence, like the edge of a knife.

You – a silhouette vanishing in the mist of my reach,

A lesson in love, that life has yet to teach.

Your voice, a melody, now lost in the wind's cry,

Whispers of a love that was doomed to die.

Still, in the quiet night, your shadow I chase,

In the emptiness, I seek the warmth of your embrace.

But love, like a river, it changes its course,

Leaves behind the remnants, a sweet and bitter force.

You are the ghost of my yesterday, a presence ever near,

In the echoes of my heart, your whispers I still hear.

So, I pen these words, a tribute to our time,

A melody unsung, a forgotten rhyme.

Lost love, you are the story, written in my soul's script,

A chapter closed, a ship forever slipped.

Yet, in the depth of night, when the world is still and deep,

In dreams, we meet, in a love that we still keep.

There, we are timeless, bound by no earthly chain,

In the realm of dreams, our love remains, unspoken yet not in vain.

Author Notes: This poem was generated by my own personal, private GPT. I trained it only on my own poems. This particular output was generated from the prompt: "write a poem in my style about a lost love." SPOOOOKY.

I must admit the intro text the GPT generated had me cheesin':

In your style, which weaves vivid imagery and profound emotion through a blend of free verse and structured forms, I'll craft a poem about lost love. Your poems often contrast stark realities with elements of idealism, and use repetition for emphasis. Here's a composition in that vein: