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a trace of you
@Uootem
I pay homage to that special time of youthful innocence...
the moments of our first convergence,
a boy and a girl inexperienced in matters of love and lust
tentatively touching... exploring unknowns
first with wide-open eyes, then hand holding hand,
ultimately unfettered to find shared passions
all the while, seeking some sort of understanding,
of an attraction so inescapable
that a trace of you still lingers
in the retrospection of my soul.
I still hear the echoes
of your love-whispered voice
softly caressing my heart,
capturing my soul
excitement thrilling,
as you avowed your love in code;
you were not alone...
i pledged devotion, too.
as we laughed, teased, petitioned one another
into unfamiliar realms.
Smiling now upon the reflection that remains,
I promise to atone the causes for our parting in sorrow,
for I now know the emptiness
of being anywhere else but in your arms.
as lethargic, imperceptible reality
winds gossamer thread tightly around
our once shared rapture.
cocooning my sobriety...
obscuring sanity, smothering calenture,
yet somehow also binding my continuing fidelity.
we momentarily met again today
a happenstance moment of encounter
and I felt the embers of a long extinguished flame
that still stir in the breeze of your presence
despite my restrained heart's dismay.
did you notice as my eyes begin to reveal
entombed emotions, long hidden away?
as I sustained the quest for some sort of understanding,
of an attraction so inescapable that a trace of you
still lingers.... in the retrospection of my soul.
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