**Valentine's Memories**
She stood confidently before me
Layers of unspoken truths
Hiding her many unexplored depths
All those silent moments where she unconsciously smiled or even wept
As I gazed and wondered at this beautiful woman before me
Who said she loved me
Really paused and perused
Thinking about all her past experiences
Plights and emotions
And all the sad times she might have allowed herself to be used
I reached out with tentative fingers
Let my hands reach her soft skin and let them linger
And as I took her into my naked arms
I too remembered
Aren't we all but living onions
Layers of life's many
extrusions
Secretive shields we use to protect ourselves
From showing our true vulnerabilities
And when she gazed deep into my dark eyes
With that beautiful transference of spiritual energy
I knew she was the one who was my own reducer
The only one to peel back my many hidden layers
To walk through my unspoken dreams and feel my fears
As I too embraced her soft tears
We were only together for twenty-two years
And then the Lord came and called her home
As I sip my Greygoose
In the quiet hours of the approaching dawn
Sitting here lonely on our old farm
I can always remember my dearest Lola and the moment
I first held her
In my naked arms
She still visits me in the dark
You know
We just hold hands as we meet with a soft smile
Before we once more begin our nightly stroll
Through the luscious green meadows of Memories Park
(C) Copyright John Duffy 2022
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