A moonlit drive

a love poem of sorts

 

A moon lit drive...

 

When I was a child,

I used to think that the world

came to an end, just beyond the hills

that lay, up on the horizon.

What lay beyond, was still

less than a thought,

and more than my imagination

could contain.

 

Growing up, no, growing older

I blinked, and all the hills had disappeared.

 

For a time,

life became books and baseballs,

girls and phone calls

that never seemed to come.

I didn’t know where it was that the world ended

but I did know that the world had grown with me

and that the world that was known to me

was still the world that I could see.

 

Growing up, no growing bolder

I closed my eyes and saw…

 

I saw my self.

I saw myself living,

I saw myself learning,

sometimes just burning,

somehow making do,

but always still yearning

for something which I hadn’t known

 

           before.

 

I was the world,

The world and I were friends.

 

Growing up, no growing colder,

I disbelieved my eyes when it was that I saw

 

           you.

 

When it was that I saw you,

I saw you standing everywhere at once.

Galaxies expanded while universes shrank,

And I, I never knew, just quite who

to thank, for bringing you to my side.

 

Tonight,

Driving through the darkness,

Moving towards morning

The world without warning

shrank into the cab of our car;

the cab of our car and it’s dancing twin lights,

while we race with the moon

through the night.

 

This, this moment now,

Is all there is that is.

This twisting, this turning,

This curving, this swerving,

This being, this moving,

always this moving,

moving towards morning

when we’ll suddenly awake;

only to open our eyes to see

that really, we can’t see at all,

because the sun,

the sun’s just too bright

this morning.

 

Then, like a dream, we’ll remember these nights…

 

This night,

driving through these darkened hills

just beyond where I grew up,

all I can see are the shadows of space

that dance as we race

and the soft lines of your face

lit, by the glow of the dash.

 

Tonight,

as we wind our way

through these darkened hills,

through this hazy dream,

it truly seems

that all those years

and all those days,

all those fears

and all those ways

that we traveled once before,

that the universe itself,

has all just melted, all away.

 

Tonight,

as you drive us through this darkness

towards your past, to catch a glimpse

of where it was that you grew up

I can’t imagine anything more

than this:

 

growing up and growing older,

moving towards morning, with you at my side.

 

I think that now, maybe

I can finally see

where it is that the world

comes to an end.

 

The world ends with you,

just at it begins with you,

it lives in you,

just as it will die

                            in you,

when morning comes,

and this dream ends…

 

you are my world,

my heart, my soul,

everything that I can see,

and all that I could ever imagine.

Reviews

[Constance]

This is a heart-wrenchingly romantic write. I love this part:
"I can't imagine anything more
than this:

growing up and growing older,
moving towards morning, with you at my side.

I think that now, maybe
I can finally see
where it is that the world
comes to an end.

The world ends with you,
just at it begins with you,
it lives in you,
just as it will die
in you,
when morning comes,
and this dream ends�"

Wow. If she doesn't love you after she reads this, if she knows you really mean it, she's a danged stupid fool. :)
You did an excellent job of making this not only read, but felt.

[emmajoy]

Beautiful.. in every way.

[Angelic Darkness]

This is a beautiful poem of memories of young, then older, then the love
by your side. This poem captures the diferent sides of life, and how we see things,
and then how we perceive where we've been. There is peace at the end, a destiny
that lead you down the right path. AD

[Juanita]

That was so beautiful. I loved it, it's so romantic. You did a great job on this piece!