"Touched..."

December

Comes a time to pause, catch a breath ...open your eyes and really see.  The pain of being alone is deeper than just absence - more telling than not sharing the good, the bad, the merely AWESOME!  Still more MEAN than living your nightmares in the daylight...

 

it's that you aren't being...

 

"Touched..."

I held and rocked you gently

under the stars...

and whipered soft-sweet meanings

and shared gentle then heated

kisses.

 

...and you held my hands

and we laughed - oh so silly times!

 

...and we sang and giggled,

spoke aloud those "forever" words

- that finally just weren't meant to be,

but back then - RIGHT then -

they WERE meant and ours - ya know?

 

And now as our life's light

is so softly fading to black

I remember all we are,

were, and would ever be...

and can't hold back the shadows.

Chris

Author's Note

feel free

Reviews

[Robin]

no shadows without a light .
your words are universal , unique is your voice , such are the memories of ~

[KAOlmsted]

I miss you...I may even write a poem about it ;-) Where the hecks are ya???

[Larry Dyson]

The older I get the more I feel it...just sitting there staring Me down.. and waiting for a reply ..I believe..
oh and big huggs you can feel!!!!!

[NANCY MCCORMACK]

Beautiful ,
I treasure my memories and can only hope we fade together

[dukovan]

Hit me in a big way, thanks Chris

[Ruth]

Chris, I know you appreciate honesty with your writing...so here it is...
This made me tearful and stirred the pit of my stomach.
You amaze me...
I could linger in your words for a long time before I even noticed I had slipped into an alternate state of being :)

[InkingPen]

Loneliness shreds us to a degree. Sad and sweetly expressed.

[sharonlee]

Soft-sweet meanings weave memories that linger.... we all hold those memories close and ponder the passing years.

Beautifully shared Chris, thank you.

[Chris]

Shar... good seeing you.

[Ken Simm.]

The lonliness of not being touched is the true lonliness. Poignant in the extreme.

[Chris]

Hi Ken, nice of you to pause. You left a very valid thought.

[Yellowjon]

Absence is often a blessing for no relationship is ever problem free.

[Chris]

people always need the space to be themselves...

[Yellowjon]

exactly