“Meet, Love, Past” (poem)

I’ll meet you on a quiet trail

On a day unknown that we’ll forget

You’ll shiver in a cardigan

Snowflakes speckled in your hair

We’ll walk and laugh, but won’t recall

A single thing we’ll say

Just you and I growing acquainted

Within a wood we’ve never known.

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I’ll bring you on a springtime drive

And give a kiss beside the shore

Then bare my thoughts that we’ll forget

As sunset falls and car grows warm

I’ll confess ugliness and fear

With anxious hope our bond will grow

And you will say some simple words

With mirrored tears that seal us true.

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Inside our peopled home once built in love

I’ll leave you in a bitter fit

Not stop to think to make amends

For something that I’ve not yet said

I’ll never see your homey tears

You’ll never hear my moonward curse

But though our fury cry eternal,

We’ll know we’ll trust and love again.

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I’ll hold to you in twilight years

Laid in the library of our life

And when you’ve gone, I’ll cast away

Unhappy memories I’ve kept

Through the pane, where barren leaves will fall,

I’ll watch, and lone, I will lament

And cherish times I once imagined

Locked forever in the past.

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I’ll learn your face I do not know

From the beginning ‘til the end

And love you when I don’t forget

Each prized, gold meeting in my head

You and I will grow and fight

And wish the sadness hadn’t held

We two treasures of each other’s life

Will meet, and love, and then be gone.