Day 18 of Poetry Month - Love Revisited

LOVE REVISITED

            In dreams, forever I did see his face, 

            Though time and fortune took him far away.

            So many years, and sometimes visions fade…        

            But suddenly, as if the clock reversed,

            There, standing by the crowd,

            I saw him first.

            And that, it seemed, changed everything,

            (The shape of planets and our distance from the moon.)

            But life is not a path we chart ourselves,

            There is a force that takes us from the shelf,

            And knowing more than we, moves things along.

            I held his heart, its sweet familiar song

            And though a while, I drifted close to shore,

            At last and suddenly, it was no more.

            For there were other passengers aboard,

            And limits to what one heart can afford.

            It’s just as well. 

            I grew self-conscious, lest his hunger fade

            For clutter of my house, for plans ill-made,

            Or for my garden, filled with dying blooms.

            Now life’s become a maze of empty rooms.

            Alas, perhaps I only dreamed it all.

            But….

            Dreams are what breath life into our lives.

            How could I not be grateful for his call?

                                                                                     © Sally Stevens 2017