A Wish Still On Loan



Making love to remembrance,
  I see her walk past

Blonde, eighteen and tan,
  and this decade my last

A memory comes back,
  as new feelings release

Of a field in September,
  when our hearts were at peace

And I think of you fondly,
  as I watch her pass by

I hold the thought warmly,
  as she looks in my eyes

With my head now to follow,
  she turns to my left

My joint pain endemic,
  my passion still deft

But this memory won’t leave me,
  as that summer you did

These new thoughts my own,
  where you took ours and hid

And as she steps through the doorway,
  a fantasy unknown

I make love to her memory
  —with a wish still on loan

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 12, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XA XA XB CB DX DX XE XE DF GF XG DG C
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Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1

Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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