Paul Trimble Poet Free verse

Love of My Life

Love of My Life

       there have been days when I was close
       with colors blooming up around
       the footsteps of my gravel past
       since then more than I can count
       has spiraled out beyond the
       counted hours we have spent
       sunlight grows through the curving glass
       and sings a chorus of tomorrow
       a firm warm hug of empty arms
       around the hollow core
       where have I been
       too long waiting just to start
       love is not what we feel
       but what we do 
       together

       this house of skin begins to fade
       at last the earth recalls her
       moist and pliant son
       I have no name to carve above
       no longer one as
       currents mix the flashing sounds
       a new and larger open space
       unfolds to wrap the frozen now
       loving children gifted with a
       hunger to forgive dance upon
       these stumbling words that
       fall so gracefully
       below

       savior
       blessed
       bodhisattva
       in this churning ocean
       let your fiery calm abide
       pull from me the twisted
       self indulgent melody
       leave me broken on the rocks
       so that we may again
       breathe as one the air within us

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