Forever

Shall I keep you forever?

~ Forever ~

              (Bonnie Tyler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa9eQd1l6ZE)

You turned once as

I swept around to give you-

One last look,

Before you walked away to cast,

Me just a burning glance aside me,

welcoming the night to your eyes, instead.

 

Years later my mind now,

Begins to wander in the sea of-

That night your shadowed feet traveled

Stepped over my mind as it,

Melds in an ethereal path over your eyelids,

Your walk now flowing in a stream of,

Nostalgic images which tear my soul,

 and my mind embraces your sweet-

Daring-bloyish blush once again-

 

Which you never wanted me to see,

The tears that clung to your,

Eyelids and swept down that,

Clavicle you’d exposed to me when I,

Tucked you in that sullen night,

That fateful, tearing damaged image,

Of our journey that broke by dawn-

 

Beautified glories for so much ravaged,

Time since then I’ve had to endure-

 

Oh me!

How my mind cries after those years.

 

My heart gives a small twitch-

An ache as though to remind my conscious,

While my toes flee, race to the edges,

Of the ocean’s waters and my,

Blood begins to beat in unexplained,

Weary, saddened, longing beats.

 

And my eyes are opened,

As the abused years now trample on,

All of my dying strength with red-clad pictures-

Rattling my grandiose image which I’d-

In negligence created.

 

All of my ideas fall away with one harsh,

Sweeping storm,

That leaves me shaking as the raw,

Pain of truth, like a blinding light from God,

Envelops me in at the last.

 

Aging beauty has is now like,

A weak, cut-out picture,

That a rippling colt seems-

To offer as it suckles the dying offer,

Of sweet, much-coveted milk . . .

 

I hug myself tightly.

 

Then my eyes arise and I-

See your image gliding towards me-

Shivering from the soft folds,

Of a pink-cheeked, rosy, sun-cast sky,

In the far distance before I-

Close my eyes, in utter bliss and my,

Shaking begins to subside,

As my legs finally stretch out to-

The endless sea of my dreams and truth   

That I’d long forgotten.

 

I indulge in the sea as you take me,

And the beauty of Heaven rings out,

In a joyous grandeur and thunders with,

The herald of a million angels.

Who glance upon my slowly blistering

Red, weather-beaten jewels,

Caring not for their much refined grace,

And they begin to transform before me,

An array of spectrum rainbows become,

Burnished fires cast aside,

Now falling in the sea of old dreams.

 

And my hands and my ears feel loaded,

Until I throw them all off-

Coming to you at last in the sea,

And my dreams take over my spirit,

In my joyous rapture.

 

The facades and wearies of life,

Now cast onto the stone,

And sweep my back away, arching,

Towards all the jewels of eternal life,

In a rose-azure, pearl-laced, rising dawn,

Where my soul is measured up with another’s,

And we keep each other . . .

Hold each other, dance, dance forever,

Within the grace,

of a new, glinting dawn.

Reviews

[Glen Yumang Manese]

This reads like a sequel from one stanza into the next...the way you convey the lines and the longing nature of the write...gives much to ponder...as a reader to this work...I would left justify your presentation instead of centered...IMPO --- would give an added feel to the entire scheme of things...since there is a lot of momentary pauses within your commas...

[Foxemerald]

Hello Glen,

Thank you so much for taking the time to review this. I really appreciate the sentiment of your thoughts and their contemplative tone. I will consider your suggestion of justifying the words on the left rather than the center. I am so glad that you appreciated this, and will be back to give you some of my time. Thank you again.