I Wish

I pray this letter finds you well As your last, veiled something I couldn’t tell Perhaps your wish Has given meaning to that final kiss Which I still remember well Your last letter even recounting our smell Oh how I clutched it with zeal Those memories that linger, I feel Though; even now That parting kiss; it remains but a crease to my brow Oh how I wish we’d remain lovers… Perhaps this wish, it still hovers In this room, long after you left Perhaps it sits by my side As I pen these thoughts, to which we are tied? Oh I how I still see your shadow As you laughed by my window Cupping the small swell of your child To another man oh so – reviled? Perhaps time has stripped the flesh from this wish And all that remains is just that – A wish… Though I do long to re-visit, that final kiss I wish… Isaiah Zerbst’s Poetry Contest – My Wish for You 18 Dec. 2014