By Peter fiero1983@yahoo.com
Date: 2 January 2001

Now I Know

For my whole life I have known your face,

seen your smile,
your sweet embrace;

heard your song,
your angelic voice;

felt your eyes,
your cooling breath;

touched you soft skin,
and lips a fire.

In every sonnet of love
in every poem of joy,
you were there,

Yet for only a brief moment have I know your name.
Its letters etched in my heart,
my soul,
even still.

I take your hand as you take mine,
never forward nor behind,
but always by your side,
in love.
together journying the paths of forever: