Love is a Struggle & Frustrated Lust: Poems on the Evolution of a Reclaimed Relationship

By Ellyn Mayfair

Ellyn Mayfair thought her chance for an emotionally fulfilling relationship with the long ago love of her life had passed her by until something magical happened on the eve of her 70th birthday. The magic occurred when she took the risk to say how she had always really felt, something she had believed for a lifetime she shouldn’t say out loud. Telling a guy you wanted him in high school was ill advised, she was told. But life’s capricious sense of humor brought Ellyn and her love back together with long-denied passion. Each of the 42 poems in this collection reflects some part of their story, be it memories of long ago, or emotional and logistical challenges of reconnecting in the 21st century's pandemic era.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Liminal Realities
• Release date: Jul 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005792404

Ellyn Mayfair

Ellyn Mayfair is a poet from the American midwest who centers most of her work on the heart and soul dynamics of lost loves, whether separated by time and distance, or by politics, divorce, or death. Occasionally other absurdities of life insist on being expressed via her backlit keyboard.

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Once Upon a Time

Once

in a youth long gone

when she was but a teen

the love of her life

touched her breast and

created a bond unseen

Upon

their hearts was set a truth

to last decades to come

as their paths diverged

through the distant woods

their passion still held strong

A Time

thought lost forevermore

they dreamt the same sweet dream

fantasies of a lifetime shared

their mutual yearnings sated

was the constant unlived theme

The Years

then filled with substitutes

who never met the test

of the love that had been planted

by the sparking of