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By redplasticroses Date: 2005 May 21 Comment on this Work [[2005.05.21.06.41.32146]] |
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Do you know? I cherish our time together Brief as it is I try to memorize each moment And hold it for safekeeping In my heart Table for two upstairs In my favorite European café In Ohio That evening When the world stood a step away You are the center of my attention The first few minutes I intently study you Reaffirming your voice and the images of you I've held since we last met You look at me With those crystals blue eyes that melt me Telling me across the table That I am too far away I agree I want to touch you In my mind, I already am In my heart, I know you are there Ticking silently away As you have been since I first met you Later, holding you as you doze off to sleep I try to memorize you with the soft pads of my fingertips. Closing my eyes and ever so slowly tracing the contour of your face the fragile skin around your eyes Your beard And your lips Perhaps these thoughts should go unmentioned But for now, I touch you in my mind Recalling my hands Touching you My body pressed against yours My hands moving across your soft skin Discovering markers that set you apart from all others I like knowing I can read your body like Braille Yet I am frustrated I find I cannot remember Every detail Every detail of your face, your hands I want to memorize each one of them I don't want them to fade I want to hold them forever More importantly I have memorized the moment I looked at you Your blue eyes looking into my green The warmth of your body encapsulating me Knowing you opened your soul to mine Like open lips waiting for a kiss Yes, that moment The one when my heart was jolted And forever changed Jmt (c) 2005 |