The damn road.

  The damn road
 

It was a cold winter day.  I awake with my blue eyes lover.

We lay together sharing sweet kisses. 

Her beautiful young body pressing against me so tightly.

I can hear her heart beating.

 I put my face into her flowing red hair.

 I wished for this moment not to end.

  I found her again.

 She  broke my heart years ago. 

The damn road put us back together again.

I escaped to war to lose her memory and now I'm  swimming in sweet warmth of her flesh.

She told  me I must get up.

 I was driving from Michigan to California this morning.

I brought her closer and  I can hear the road calling me again.

I watch my love get  dressed.

 She was as  beautiful  when we were young and our hunger to love was possible.

I see in her face. The joy in your eyes to have me with her. 

So funny I also saw  the desire for me to leave.

We share a meal and many tender kisses.

 I wave goodbye and I saw soft tears in her eyes as I drove away..

I should have turned back and never allowed her to leave my life.

But the damn road and my heart couldn't take losing her again.

                                COYOTE
                              8 July 1992
 
 

 
 

Author's Note

Old poem with a re-write. Enjoy.

Reviews

[Great Aunt Astri]

Aarh, you couldn't take losing her again. That pulls at my heart strings. At first I thought this poem was too long and too detailed, a bit like a write in a diary. Then I read it again and it grew on me. Do you know it was like you had made a video. I thought it was a very visual effective poem!

[Coyote Poetry]

The wisdom of the heart must be listen to. If your heart tell you. You are dancing on fire and if you stay. You will burn. Best not to look back. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Great Aunt Astri]

Yes, our heart tells us when we love but it also tells us when to move on!

[lawrence bear]

I really felt your emotion here, hard to say good byes, especially to ones we love. Yet he didn't want to go through a heart break again, thank you for sharing :)

[Coyote Poetry]

You are correct. Don't want to repeat the same mistake twice. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Ees]

Nice. I really love the sentiments and the way you set the mood. I can almost see that blue light that comes in winter mornings as I read this.
There were a couple little things that I am pretty sure were errors, that you may want to look at:

"I see in her face. The joy in your eyes to have me with her. "- I think the "your" was meant to be "her"- or "my" because otherwise that is a strange and singular turn in who you are addressing with this poem.


" I should of turn back and never allowed her to leave my life."- "of" should be "have" "turn"-turned?.. or actually it would make way more sense just to take the of out: I should turn back and never allow her to leave my life.- you know to match up the tenses and stuff.

anyway, really lovely poem. I enjoyed reading it.

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you for the help. Greatly appreciated.

[Lydia Shutter]

A powerful write here. Sometimes love is just not enough. Seeing someone you cared so deeply for years ago and realizing how many years have passed....so bittersweet! Not just the damned road tore you apart though.....it was not meant to be. Beautifully written. lydi**

[Coyote Poetry]

Your words are true. Somethings are not support to happen. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[isus]

yeah, this is such a beautiful piece, words are useless to say anything about it. love it. and writen in year of my birth.

[Coyote Poetry]

!992 was a good year. Thank you for reading an d the comment.

[Rose of many colours]

After reading this piece I guess you have to damed the damed road

[Coyote Poetry]

Life can separate two people. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Rose of many colours]

you are welcome

[gabrielle]

While the idea of being together with an old love may sound romantic, there are things and/or relationships that are not meant to be. Very poignant write.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are right. Rarely does second chances work. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Audrey Elisabeth]

I really love this. Its such an image evoking poem, its amazing. Wonderful work :)

P.s. It wouldn't let me rate it 200 but you deserve it :)

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you. You are very kind.

[Dhaye]

This is touching. I can see it like in a movie or in a tv drama series...that damn road- it made you meet again.

This is splendid, CP. The person who broke your heart is still the one who fixed it.

[Coyote Poetry]

Sort of. Some people have bad timing. Love take two people with the same desire on the same path. Hard to do. We tried three times. Now she is only a pleasure memory. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Rose of many colours]

No, No ,no Is this based on real life? If not it is areal work of art..

[Coyote Poetry]

Based on real life. It happen 25 years ago. Feels like a fiction poem today. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Rose of many colours]

I will tell you when I first read it I thought it was based on real life. It doesnt feel like fiction to me at all.It feel like you relived the moment. Aw man why men throw away sound love..

[Tina Kline]

A very sad tale indeed. Sometimes we can go back but find that nothing is as it was. Things change. People change. And sadly, we sometimes make decisions after its too late to follow through on them. Excellent poem.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are right. Life is taking chances and making mistakes. Most of us wished we did things differently in the past. Thank you reading and the comment.

[Tina Kline]

You're very welcome!