. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Valentine Memories

Monday, February 14, 2022

Valentine Memories


**Valentine's Memories**


Like an unpeeled entity

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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