Sunday Nov. 21,1999 – Post at Comsie’s Shack
I’ve noticed a lot of ‘first time’ poems and stories posted here. Thought I’d give my poem a chance for boos and accolades (hehehe). The memories are very personal and as meaningful to me today as they were years ago. What was it I posted to someone recently... oh yeah, ‘better to have loved.....” Though the memories are old, the poem is new. Your comments are appreciated.
I REMEMBER
Sitting here, feet up – all’s quiet around me.
A day’s growth tears at my bare shoulder, sleep has yet to claim it’s victim.
This day is in repose too as night engulfed me some hours ago.
My glass is the only thing by my side now and even the dew once coating its surface
and wetting my fingers has long since evaporated.
My thoughts too engulf me and I remember.
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I remember your presence, though just a feeling now, a shadow sometimes,
But you are there.
Even there, when you were miles away.
There, somewhere inside me. Inside my mind - no...there, where my breath originates.
A presence in the ebb and the flow of my mind, my spirit, in the presence of my love.
And my love reaches for and engulfs you.
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I remember... you’re walking toward me... now, through the mist of my memory.
I didn’t know who you were... then, but somehow I knew that I would.
Your face carried a smile the way your gate complemented that perfect body.
And on you came. I swallowed in the mirage, the magic
and my love for you began to burn in me as it engulfed you.
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I remember you, my love, the way you always saw me.. I could see myself in your eyes.
You looked into me and always smiled and because of that smile I smiled too.
You knew me like no other, better than I knew myself.
For the first time in my life you allowed me to be and I felt beautiful.
And our love engulfed us.
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I remember the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the warmth of your embrace.
You lay beside me, your arms around me.
You surrounded me, the warmth of your body, your breath, your kiss.
You warmed my soul.
And our love brought light into our universe and we were kings...we concurred the word.
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I remember you were there for me.... I came before you and you before me.
You laughed and played with me and when I fell, then too, you were there.
You picked me up. You comforted me.
You stayed with me.
We were one yet different yet greater than the sum of us.
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I feel you inside of me now and I inside of you and I remember.
The rhythm of our bodies matched the rhythm of our beating hearts.
My wetted hands slide over you and our sweat is now one.
I taste you and you taste me. I’m no longer alone. Your inside of me still.
We were one yet different yet greater than the sum of us,
and our bodies collapsed and we slept.
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I remember you and that is all that I have left.
It will last forever.....
copywrite 9/29/99 Chuck aka nightowl