In Monterey

We can try to escape. Sooner or later the memory will catch up with us.

        In Monterey

I called you to tell you I was all right. 

I don't remember losing you so much here.

The winter days of Michigan made me sad.

Here in Monterey I never get  cold and the sun appears everyday.

I go to the ocean.

Listen to the sea lions cry.

I don't feel so lonely.

I will stay in California.

The pain is less.

I can't promise to forget you.

But I'm OK.

I'm safe from  the hunger to hold and touch you.

The cold of Michigan winter brings me back to your memory.

The 3000 miles will protect me.

I wonder do you miss me?

The man who tried to make you laugh.

The man who tried to love you.

Here in Monterey.

The pain is less.

Someday we will talk face to face.

Maybe on a summer day.

   Coyote

   1993

Author's Note

Old sweet and bitter memory.

Reviews

[Laura Maidah]

Maybe restructuring and reordering the sentences to promote a smoother connection of ideas. I was distracted and started thinking about your writing process. Any distraction is cause for a revision. Some sentence inversions might to the trick and add a real pop to your poem! As usual, thanks for sharing.

[Priyanka Natesh]

This one goes into my library. Such sincere yearning and love. Amazing write. Thank you :)

Love is universal, and that's what I read here, outstanding poem! thank you Cayote for sharing!

[Joiedevivre]

funny how the sun and a change of setting helps ease the bitterest of pains.

[Black]

such sad poem..
though enjoyable to read
keep on writing:)

[anne p. murray- LadeeAn..]

You create a mood of yearning. Someone buried deep within your soul. Its so difficult to let go of someone we care for so deeply, distancing ourselves from the past in miles... yet not in heart or thought

[Irwin]

We can move around the world but we cannot escape ourselves. Resolution lies in our own hearts and minds. The plus side is that it generates poems like this which we can all appreciate. A fine write.

[Dorothea Barth]

Heartful writing about a place I know well....

[Kat]

Sometimes only distance and time can heal a broken heart. Beautiful write.

[No use.]

touchingly near and far, the pains of love still linger close by, separated by seasons and seas.