A Love Like This

Beside the river flowing over smooth Stones, dark and shadowy waters, Healing me with hues of summertime truths… Echoing past the whimsical blue, streaming Alive like the music playing in the distance Meeting my heart’s hope with gentling Blistering my memory with harmony, blessing The promise of tomorrow – history in the making Yesterday, the past, long gone from today… Yet, it lives in my history, my memory, my heart Where it aches to be felt once again… listening Like a verse in the wind, blaming the early times, The moment I decided to make him mine The moment he realized love had come by… Like a wise, old promise… awakening the beautiful Inside two hearts who finally knew the meaning Beneath the intimate, the passionate, the fleeting moment… A diamond sparkling tenderly, brilliant as the kiss That happened when we knew the first breath of bliss… To finally feel a love so tempting, a love like this! A Diamond of Time Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Julia Ward May 20, 2023