Breathe Anew
The last thing I remember
since the day our love began
was thinking what they say of love
was really just a sham.
A fantasy we want to be
that helps us to get by,
steeped in its illusions
by how well we live the lie.
Hoping still I'd someday find
the perfect one for me,
who understood
my thoughts and dreams
and who I want to be,
one dawning day we said hello
and recognized a change,
mirrors of a kindred soul
so comfortingly strange.
As though we both
knew right away
our paths were meant to cross,
we started telling secrets
sharing pain we knew of loss.
Noticing new things we feel
with never more to say,
the more we sought
to share our time
the more I hoped you'd stay.
All I knew of happiness
had somehow been reborn,
shedding veils of life's regret
brought feelings deep and warm.
What it means to live
had changed
I knew I'd found the one,
as if again to breathe anew
as life had just begun.
The last thing I remember
since the day our love began
was thinking what they say of love
was really just a sham.
Now I know a lovers glow
is more than fantasy,
It's everything I ever hoped
and dreamed true love would be.
- Jeannie Minor
Copyright © Jeannie Cronin | Year Posted 2018
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