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THE DOVE OF PEACE REVISITED Copyright © 1999 Jeff Linder
Wind Walker

Here I was again, as I was often, walking in the park...
looking for something -- answers maybe???
It was twenty-five years ago when I met HER. What am I saying? I never really saw HER or talked to HER, did I?? I am still confused as to what truly occurred. HER brother said that she had died... I couldn't have seen HER...

But I know, I think, that I found that earring, the dove.. the small dove in full flight -- didn't I ??? But I do know that I remember the touch of HER hand when she took the dove from me after I found it.... And I have never forgotten the lingering freshness that I knew was HER.

As my mind tumbled along these paths of memory and confusion, so too did I wander along the side paths of the park, neither seeing exactly where I was or where I had been...

Something snapped me back to reality.. I sensed HER freshness ! I knew it was HER .. It had to be... I whirled and looked in all directions for HER. Where was she ?? My eyes said she wasn't there, but all the rest of my being said she was. I could feel HER presence, HER aura, HER spirit... Folowing my senses, I found myself at length at the foot of 'the' tree.... HER tree.

As waves of depression flowed over me, I shuddered at the thought of losing my "soul mate" again, without ever have the chance to hold HER, to be one with HER.... My eyes looked frantically through the darkness from limb to limb ... looking for a sign of HER.. nothing.. only the freshness of her..
Finally in sheer desparation, I started to climb HER tree. I had to find HER. She was here, I knew it, I could feel HER. Climbing higher and higher, I looked for HER.

There ! That way -- she is that way ! Follow HER ! My mind was screaming at my 49 year old, out of shape, body.. As I reached out further and futher to touch HER presence, I felt the branch start to give way.... But, now my eyes could see HER. I edged along the limb a little further --- As our eyes locked onto each other's, I realized that I was falling, but nothing could tear my eyes from HER. For every branch my body struck, she came closer.... As my crumpled body impacted the ground, she was holding me in HER arms. She leaned down and as our lips touched, I felt that I now had all of the answers that I had been searching for. The sweet taste of HER cool lips made my head swim..

I opened my eyes and peered down. Down?? The scene that unfolded to me was not what I had expected to see. There in the middle of the street was a limp form that somehow looked familiar... It was ME !!! A man jumped out of the truck and rushed to the body lying there..... "What in the world made you do that, you fool?? I couldn't stop!!! You just stood there looking like you had seen a ghost !!
Oh... I'm sorry... so sorry........"

The presence next to me said.."It is time to go.. Now we have eternity together. "
And as she turned to lead me away, I saw a reflection from the light of a street lamp sparkle through HER hair.
It was a pretty thing, a dove in full flight...
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