Notes About The Poem
wrote this years after I was in a serious car accident and much younger but thought it had some good thoughts about dealing with death, this was also around the time that I had some very good friends dying from AIDS in San Francisco. Things have changed thank goodness. improved it a bit but not much. the difference between 38 and 69.
Leave Me Now
Leave Me Now
Always leaning against the sycamore
Where leaves and shadows play upon your face
Standing solitary in evening's softened light
You touched me once
In the midst of siren sounds and steel
You summoned and I refused your darkness
Yet your breath brushed my face gently
And your presence promised a quiet peace
Since then I have seen you
Near a friend's thinning frame
Heard you gently tap on hospice windows
Whispering do not stay to bear the pain
Yes, a time will come when I long for you
But you must me leave now--go away
I am too young to feel your heavy certainty
I wish to walk free and feel light again
To watch the newly born leaves open and dance
In summer's sun and jasmine's sweet perfume
Copyright © Linda Milgate | Year Posted 2018
Copyright © Linda Milgate | Year Posted 2021
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