Pierre Cardin On My Mind

My heart melts like chocolate
Left out on the sidewalk
Wasted sweet surrender
Leaving stains upon the pictures of the mind
Dissolving your touch from the inside out
Leaking from the corner of my sight
Rivulets meander as though they remember
The patterns of your caress
Cool tracings of stark daylight
Dappled memories of night's hot surrender
Rich ~ full bodied it was
Complete ~ long lasting
Carried to the rising sun
Resting heady and loving
Paisley dreams fill our bodies
Words of continuance spill from our wet lips
And dance with our sleeping forms
Luscious and true rang mine
Resonated in chorus with yours
I still hear my song ringing out
Though your music now appears as an unfinished symphony
Its emptiness sucks up my universe
As your truth lays as silent as a bell without a clapper
Wondering what still sounds within your being
Is it my voice ~ words ~ pictures talking joy
Or somehow just deleted by a memory virus of convenience
So you can replay your song
Crisp and fresh
Tabled as sweet hors d'oeuvres for another
Perhaps a word or two hit a program safeguard
Was it fear of caring ~ truth ~ ?
For your everyday lasted not into eternity
Even not to the next day
Return in 4 hours is soon to be 24 and not counting
Further time fades faster than sweet cologne upon my pillow
Dreams pop like bubbles rainbowed in sunlight
Each as a minute stab to my faith ~ trust in hearts ~ joy shared
Perhaps it is all as simple and
Easily melted away
As chocolate scented with Pierre Cardin
Simmering through the cracks of life’s sidewalk
I step over to continue my path...

Jana Drake
8-30-99
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