"I will love you forever and a day"

Written in 1978. Memories are like a good wine. Better with time.

  " I will love you forever and a day".

        
A serene and tranquil day.

She took my hand and whisper.
"My laughing American.
Life is hard.
Love can be sweet.
Wine gets better with time.
Please come with me.
Let's salvage our emotion and desire."

"Youth will be discarded.
We will be exile to adults.
Who will lose the treasures of the tender touch
and the sweet sensation of true passion."

I asks "When we lose the thrill of the dance?
Emotion and gentleness recede to children dreams.
Will only the debris of youth be left?
Will I forsake your beautiful face and memory?"

Leonard Cohen was playing softly in the small apartment.


By the light of soft burning candles.
Two shadows try to indulge in the gift of love and passion.
Trying to satisfy every sensation and emotion.

The morning light appears.
We languished into the afternoon.
Holding each other tightly.
We knew we held paradise for a moment.
When we left the room.
We would leave  our innocent and youth locks in
a sweet dream.  


We knew we entrenched two lives together.
She handed me a journal.
Told me to write down your passion and sweet dreams
in this book.
In time we will forget to love and be gentle.
Only the story and old memories will bring peace in the end.

The first page she wrote words of love.
I kissed her lips.
Thanks her for the journal.

I read the last line from her sweet words.

"I will love you forever and a day."



                          Coyote
                           1978
                          

Author's Note

My oldest poetry book is 32 years old. This poem came from it. A blue eye lady gave me her heart and told me to write. She told me. Don't reach for dreams. What do we really have?

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

'I will love you forever and a day'
Coyote Poetry,
It is encouraging to read this knowing it comes from your youth. To have been writing down thoughts and such from young adulthood is wonderful. I have started writing a little more on a daily basis in a journal. I never had before. Thankful for your lovely story and the sweetness of it's reality for you.
Blessings,
Kathy

[Coyote Poetry]

I am glad you are writing in a journal. These journals become valuable. Allow us to travel to the past and remember. Thank you Kathy for reading and the comment.

[Inci 2]

wonderful, heartwarming write.. it is great to have a writer like u here

[Priyankaabhilaashi]

Wonderful write...!!!

[Scandalous]

Goosebumps! That was absolutely amazing! I loved the sweet details yet intense passion.

Scandalous

[Jennifer]

nice write... keep up da good work...

[Inkcognito]

Reminiscing about the moment of innocence lost, the transition into reality...a world filled with so many emotions, sometimes confusing and contradictory feelings - a beautiful stroll in remembrance of someone who had a profound influence on your outlook on life, love and dreaming...we have to reach for our dreams, if we don't they will simply fade into nothingness...
Sometimes, it is indeed possible to love someone "for forever and a day"...they may not even realise that it is so...

[MissWordSmith]

this was so great. it was... raw and full of love. i could tell this emerged from a true tale of the past. you did love this lady very much, or the person you were when you were with her.
just try to work on the grammar, because it's the only thing that's holding you back right now.

[Eternal.Dreamer]

I can feel the amount of sweet emotions that are spread in this poem...with one word-amazing.

[beautiful disaster]

dreams are what give people the power to live. Something to look forward to because even though you wake up everyday and you are alive unless you have that someone or something to make your live worth living then why live as a drone.

[Haifa]

Very lovely poem... really lovely.. thanks for sharing!

[Kelsie Eileen Stark]

Very good, Tons of emotion. Great job.