Devotion Poem Anniversary

DEVOTION POEM 39th ANNIVERSARY On this stilled night, Dare I presume? After a listening to the way Einstein came to realize his Relativity realities, Dare I presume to sit once overagain in memory In a student center’s crowded circumstances…? To choose you, to offer a share of my Sandwich, snapping a mental photo of your hands, Which in our years I will come to love, able To imagine their frequent, gentle touch over My skin, just as your eyes always do, as still, after All these years as if asking permission for its sought sight of me. Do we presume in our dancing angles so relative To our decades of delighted diagonals resting our heads On each other’s chests, feeling the warmth, the slow Up and down as breaths go on? Hold then, once again My heart in your hands, as we incline back or lean forward In time, in this astounding utterance of long years — 39 — That I dare not utter without some marveling tears; For my long ago hopes of this togetherness, I once but presumed to bear, a simple maid With hopes of loving thee, with a love that can bring you Some joy in its life and length of passion. A dream, a hope, a vow become reality. The deepest love can presume its memories to seem as If they occurred only yesterday, held in the heart Once over, living again. ——————————- ————————————————. ————————————- (c) sally young eslinger 8/17/22 Anniversary 8/17/83 With regards to t.s. Elliot