Chimera

 
Amid the darkness
a lost love found me,
waiting like a lioness
under a lone  streetlight.
Images of you flood my mind.
Craving the fluidity of your presence,
I reject the tangibility of lost love
in favour of a found shadow.
The heart complicates
the simplest things.

Anthony Desmond is leaving the poets’ pub dVerse team to concentrate on publishing, and leaves us a cracker of a prompt to go out with a bang!  He gives us 8 of his own lines, from which we are to choose 3 to include in a poem.  Ever the rebel, I used bits of 7 of them but not one complete line – here they are:-

Flood me like a lone streetlight amongst the darkness
Craved images of you
A lost love found me, in you
Like a lioness with belladonna in her eyes
shooting eggs with guns
Fluidity of your presence
Shade like shadow
The heart makes the simplest things so damn complicated