Thursday, September 26, 2024

recall 2015

  

like Pushkin I can recall

 that first moment when

 I saw her face

Though I did not know what I felt exactly

I recall it was intense

we all caught up in the throes of a grief

we do not know

 our lives lived in vain

even if we knew not then

it was

 how deep her eyes

how wide

how thorough she would have me skewed

casting open and revealing

even something I did not know

 what was there

now as time passes

her voice unheard for years

I grasp the sounds

 I tried recall and can't

like a deaf man watching

her lips move but no words

and yet even then

 I still ache

And still wish to kiss


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