5/20/11

I Miss You
By Anne Maven


I miss you
The day begins
Golden skies
Memories of tenderness
Long ago
Would you know me
If we crossed paths
On this earth
In this time
In this life?
Drive through the mountains
Memories of poetry
That you made up
Love deep as the ocean across
Every cell remembers
Drowning in that love
My heart remembers
Living in that warmth
Yet
Would I know you
If I saw you again?
Would eyes be blinded
By expectation?
Perhaps short, perhaps not
Blue eyes, black eyes
Brown hair, golden
Would the heart be fooled
By thoughtless dress
Artless speech?
Would the mind take over
Strike off points that don’t please?
Twilight now
Strange sinking
I’m not going to see you today
The first star
Silly romantic that I am
I cry out
To the universe to hear
My hope that we shall meet
That we shall know
You for me
I for you
And everything else
Would cease to be.
All this for a person
I know in my soul
In deep remembrance
Of such union
That at the time
It mattered not
That we would part
For the memory
Of togetherness
Would carry us through
Lifetimes apart.


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Anne Maven is a writer, therapist, mom, wife and yoga junkie.