Love! Many of us have experienced it.  I wrote this poem based on stories from anyone who has shared with me their experiences of love, togetherness, and heartache, including mine.  The decision to stay or to depart.  The decision to work things out. The decision to stay amicable towards one another.  In several stories, I recall the exhibition of present love, however the persons in the relationship chose to show it.  One of my brothers, Fentress, loves to read this poem aloud using much  emotion.  He does the poem passionate justice as he recites it.

REMEMBERING US

When I think of you

I think of us

Whispers of melodic love songs…

“Easy, When I Fall In Love, Let’s Talk About It, You are My Sunshine, Brown Skin”

Need I say more

Conversations that comfort

Disagreements that blossom into beauty

Truths that hurt, but heal

Unspoken moments cradle us in love

Glimpses that are so seductively warm

Symbolic gifts that mirror our love

Stolen hours of secret passion that brands our hearts, souls, and minds

Looove…Sooo…Reeeal…

That even apart

We can smell the aromatic scents of one another as though the other is present

When we make love our way

It feels as though our beings entered the other and orchestrated passionate waltzes and exuberant sambas

We share awaken dreams of how our love truly is…

Full, unselfish, bold yet soft, honest, willing, forgiving, accepting the lovable embrace of apologetic symphonies, healing from our hands, loving from the inside out, respecting decisions of the other…

Umm! We loved!!!

When our love started to end, we embraced what love truly is to us

Our souls cried a deep mourning

Our tears flowed until dawn

We made our decision

Love truly is you…

My friend

by:  Deb’orah C. Momon