Vinegar and sweet wine

Funny how life can get twisted. For the bad and the good.

                              












                         










 Vinegar and sweet wine

Did I thank you my beautiful and sweet Brigitte?
I'm leaving  on  plane very soon for my real home.
You came back into my life to say goodbye.
You are sitting between my legs.
I caress your hair as you lay your head against my chest.

I whisper "You saved my life once. Life was lost in my mind. Time became seconds
ticking away waiting for nothing. On a cold winter day. You found me alone with the whiskey
and bad thoughts." You told me.  "Love is like vinegar and sweet wine. Love begin so sweet and
if we don't be kind and gentle. Sweet wine can turn to vinegar."

Sweet Brigitte walked softly into my life.
Walking softly on old memories.
Trying to replace pain with tender touches and soft kisses.
Time allowed our love to grow.
We spend a year in the heat of a sweet and kind love.

With my time becoming short in the beauty of Germany.
I saw in her eyes the fear.
Love do have limits.
I wanted my home and she needed her home.
We separated for the reasons of the safety of the heart.
There is a time where people must decide.
Better to walk away politely then to be torn apart by circumstances.

Today I hold you close.
I whispered "I never stop loving you.
You are my only sweet dream in my life.
I will always remember my beautiful Brigitte.
I never felt as safe as when I was in your arms.
You will be a sweet dream always."

Brigitte give me many sweet kisses.
We fall together on her soft bed.
She hold me tightly.

She whisper. " Love can be so sweet and then have the aftertaste of vinegar.
I will miss my Poet. Please be strong and don't forget me."

I ask her again.
"Did I thank you my beautiful Brigitte for being my lover and teacher that love
can be sweet and kind? You will be the sweet wine in the memory of a man who loved a
kind and wonderful woman once."


                                     Coyote



 




 

Reviews

[Becky C Strukamp]

Coyote, this was so amazing. I related to it instantly but in a different way. It brought me memories of my first husband who was stationed in Seoul Korea. I was only 16 years old. The love and understanding you spoke of here and the peace and lessons that someone from another place far away brought to you while you were so far away from your home are so tender and loving. You always have a way to make sense of situations that most would walk away and feel empty but you turn them into lessons of life. A very enjoyable and touching poem.

[darkness*star1985]

WOW this hits home, for i had to give up my love when he had to return home, this poem touches my heart and is so close to my own stories, i am still haunted by the memories of my love story.

Good writed amazing

[Marissa]

Very nice story in this!

[Patrick]

A tribute of great worth...so hard to know where to place your writing because it has a unique face to it..I feel like we are reading chapters of your diary..it's a privilege.

[Junger]

AWW i love this piece its its how to put it its a mixture of honey and salt i dont know how to but its an amazing piece keep it up

[Allen Smuckler]

...and you never know Coyote
when the love of your life may reenter it and rekindle what was and will always be..
There is something about the magic of our first "true" love and the passion and honesty that remains with us for a lifetime....it doesn't matter if it really "was" ... it only matters that it "did"....
This beautiful write tells it as it should be told...with warmness, tenderness, and fondness, with a bit of emptiness in our gut for your loss.
Great write, Coyote
allen

[Norma M Sutton]

Nice

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A knowing cocktail of rest, desire and affection, a most stirring piece my friend x

[Aianarie (INACTIVE)]

Beautiful poetry-prose that nearly brought me to tears. The bittersweet tone of this written memory is both fascinating and heartbreaking. Outstanding poetry as usual, Coyote.

[Moriarty]

Very beautiful story in verse...nicely done...