DM Babbit Poet Sonnet

If I Close My Eyes

When I close my eyes
     and can not see you near,
were I to shut out sound 
     my ears never to hear 
     your laughter or your cry,
 if my heart should stop beating
    my passion would still burn,
 if by chance I did not exist
    never chance to be,
    never find your kind heart's touch -
I would still know, 
    still feel, still sense, 
    the love
 that was alone, for you and me;

the memory of your spirit,
     time long before your last goodbye
 the laughter and joy we shared
     the tears that broke your heart
     the forgiveness in your smile,
 to see it, feel it, 
     ache within the embrace of its demise
     every fiber in my being silenced by its cries
 it is something that my soul can only caress
     laying wide the solitary emptiness
     forever the love I still confess
to reveal everything 
     between us now left
     if I just close my eyes.

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