I Will Search Forever

Life on Earth is but a brief interlude, watercolors fading, becoming air. Yet, loving once surely we could conclude love is the purpose of our being there. Night upon night, it's my dreams you intrude. You thought this was all there was to one's life: one chance to know beauty and life's wonder. Sorrow and happiness mingled with strife, much to be carelessly cast asunder, as if lopped off by a marauder's knife. I believe there is more, for I can feel the touch of your skin brushing against mine. A different moment on Time's great wheel; a unique story written line by line, another life's mysteries become real. I see us together in boundless space, your voice whispering love words in my ear. I'll kiss your lips, caress your whiskered face, we'll murmur words only spirits can hear. centuries will pass during our embrace. I will search for you behind every cloud, upon every star you might catch a ride. I'll hear every voice that beckons aloud until I hear your's and I'm by your side; we two alone in the afterlife crowd. October 5, 2021 Quintain (Sicilian) Emile Pinet, Sponsor 8th Place