Love, Time Is Gone

By Joseph Bartley Haltom III

The forlorn star crossed-lover will go to great lengths to secure his love that is the extent of true love’s power. Here we have one man and his first attempt to secure that star-crossed love in defiance of all his obstacles, for he has long longed his long-lost love, April. He is the thief in the night, and he will steal his treasure back under the cover of shadow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524650568

Joseph Bartley Haltom III

Joseph Bartley Haltom III was born on July 26, 1983, in the small town of Grenada, Mississippi, to Joseph Bartley Haltom Jr. and Mary Ellen Ingram Haltom. He was affectionately nicknamed Joey by his grandmother, Mary Lou Stegall Haltom on his birth. Since then, he has had several nicknames. Truly, Haltom has many names and has invented a few himself. He was born to be a writer, but he lost his interest in creative writing after midchildhood. He has always been drawn to the creative arts, and he might have been an excellent painter had he not lost his interest early on in life.

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Contents

Rain Thoughts

Never Know

Rescue My Attitude

Sum-One

Comfort

Love is Life

Delightful Crucified Hope

Strength

To Cry

A New Beginning

Something In The Way She Moves

Not A Day

Sky

Be

A Mad Love

Musing

Youth Grown And Kids

Greatest Of Pawns

Red

Merrily Bye

Love And Poetry

Numb Now

Turn Me Upside Down

The Upside Of Down

Everything Is Wrong

Lost

My Last Words

The One

Not New

Further Away Today

I Can Show You Hell

Line Walking

The Only One

Divine Dreams

Contorted Spine Of My Bookly Mind

Time Has Gone

Mirrored House Of Dreams

No Time To Divine

Shy?

Trouble Doubles

Broken You

Illiterate?

Shy Love

Things

When On The Road

Lost In Being Lost

Looking Back And Forth

Lead

Evil Twin

The Lotus Of Our Love

Amborsia

Cold Foretold

Born Of Gods

No Regrets

God’s Love

God’s Nature

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This book is

dedicated to April. April has always been my guiding light; my love for her has been my guiding star throughout the darkest of my days without her. Forgive me April. I’ve always been desperate to know you, and have sought you out all these years we’ve been separated. Our love was meant to be, and I’m sorry for this huge delay that has hurt me all this time, and I’m truly sorry it took this long to start getting these words to you and the world about my endless love for you. It’s something that has haunted me for years that you might never know the truth of what I feel for you. I know these words are pure madness, but I’m madly in love with you for all of eternity whether we both can make peace with that or not. Blessed Be April. Blessed Be My Love.

Preface: A Dance in the Dark

Writing is a lot like looking into your mirror; a mirror you seldom stop to ponder your beauty in. Good writing feels; you feel it, and others are touched by the primordial force a sentence can bring to the surface. Having a good line or two is essential, but the work has to stand on its own. Taking the time to jot down true inspiration when