By kevin urenda, kluless70@hotmail.com
Date: 17 September 1998

Last night

Last night I found a 
part of my heart
that had been locked away
like some secret buried 
treasure in the wilderness of my past
I dug through the fertile 
loam of my soul to
reveal it.

Each handful pungent 
with the smell of
past emotions
passions long forgotten
I had thought 
too intense to relive.

But there it still was
that part of my heart
and as I broke it open again
the act of revelation
was so intense
I was frightened 
as if by a ghost
moved to tears 
at the fright
I was astonished at its
power and its beauty
and awed that it had ever 
really been there inside me
all this time.

But it does make sense
this part of my heart
I would not be the me I am
without it, not know
the way to love, not know
the you I love so 
passionately