FOREVER MY LOVE

Life has been some milestones -

A wayside bar

Of discreet legal permits

So out of the way

In one long, dreary dark night

That flies by

In fearsome silhouettes

Of shady pasts.

Drawing shades

Over my present

Lest it shows -

this ugly mark

of chronic hurt

on a psyche

that once knew love.

Now centuries old

My love

And written on yellow parched paper

That I store so preciously

in a steel trunk

With silks that break to the touch.

My gnarled hands

I note

Are still pretty

As is the shape of my nose.

This swirling mist will soon clear

And you will know

that even after all these years

I still stand by the doorway

Looking inward

At the exquisite designs

You once wove

In lighter and darker shades

Over the

transparency of my soul.