| Browse by article: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 |
Beyond Forgetting.
For a moment I thought I could forget you...
For a moment I thought
I could still the restlessness of my heart..
I thought the past could no longer haunt me
nor hurt me....
how wrong I was.
For the past...no matter how distant...
Is as much a part of me as life itself.
And you are part of that life.
You are so much a part of me....
my dreams...my early hopes...
my youth and my ambitions...
that in all my tasks...
I can't help remembering you...
many little delights and things remind
me of you....
Yes, I came and would my pride...
mock my real feelings.
Would the love song...
the sweet lovely smile on your face....
be lost among the deepening shadows....
I have wanted to be alone...
I thought I could make myself forget you...
in silence and in a song....
And yet I remembered...
For who could forget the memory
of the once lovely, the once beautiful...
the once happy worlds such ours?
I came because the song that I kept
through the years is waiting to be sung.
I can't sing it with out you...
The song...when sung alone...
will lose the essence of its time...
because you and I had been one.
I have wanted the misery to end...
because it's a part of my restlessness.
CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
can't you feel the depth and the tenderness
of my feelings towards you?
Yes, can't you see how I suffer
in this ever darkness without you?
You went away because you mistook my silence
for indifference.
But silence my dear, is the language
of my heart.
How could I essay the intensity of my love...
when silence speaks a more eloquent tone?
But perhaps...you did not understand.
Remember I came...
because the gnawing loneliness is there...
and it will not be lost
until the music is sung....
until the poem is heard....
until the silence is understood....
until you come to me again.
For you alone....
can blend music and memory...
into once consuming Ecstasy....
YOU ALONE.........................
[ Back to "Lasting Love Poems" page ]