As If Those Years Never Went Away
Aug 25th, 2008 by Ree Joy
the first time
i heard your voice
again –
like summer warmth,
like the blanket
of a sultry summer night,
like your smile was never lost,
like love never took a vacation –
my soul, winter-chilled so long,
melted into spring,
into the green and the heart
of another exultation,
into a fiercer need,
a greater wanting;
to be held
again, in your arms,
to hold you once more,
a thousand nights more, into me,
to claim the hours, the days, the years
when your heartbeats were not there
to warm my own,
to hold you, oh to hold you,
as if those years
never went
away.
