Imagining a Devotion Series Poem

*** IMAGINING (a Devotion Series Poem) *** My beloved, do you see my eyes Approaching near to sweet tears Whenever your intimate touch Comes — as you brush my hair or reassuringly pat me twice — Before proceding with the tasks at hand, Leaving me to sit here, mere steps away? And, constantly I begin to imagine You standing apart from the hour And purposefully, resolutely You pass through the room Into my vision Of you returning Through dimensions To receive my longing… Always Stopping for an instant, a step away, sensing the impetus of our decades of love. You go on to slide between me and all the glaring lights —- In slow motion —- You incline toward me… To fall over me… Thus in my imagining, nearly Every time when I see you Away in your being in the somewhere else of sleep, I will imagine you nearing… For that gentle touch Through the walls aound my heart — Even to the thought of us lying abreast, Held in our combined warmth As the rythm of our heartbeats pulse — the one aside the other — Tranquil ————————————————————————————————————— (c) sally young eslinger 6/19/2023 Thanks be to God