It happens to us all...

Mar 09, 2008 03:48

Yeah. Some of you have seen this before, but I'm digging it up for someone in particular. Of course, if I could just wake up the damn poet, he could write something more pertinent, and fresh, instead of me having to recycle his old crap.

Eenyhoo, hang in there! Plenty of good thoughts headed your way...



#Untitled #523 (#Winter Wind)

Last  night, as I was sweeping the snow from my car, the
night  wind grew in strength and whirled
the  flying flakes into my eyes. But something about the
wind  felt different. This wind was gentler than the one that
whistled  and moaned outside my window, stalking
about  my apartment, looking for a weakness. As
my  hands stopped their work, the brush forgotten,
memories  of warmer winters chased laughter
and  the spectacle of us running giddily to the car; then, though
I  wore only a t-shirt and jeans, I barely
shivered,  even in the February air. I was entranced for
but  a moment, until the wind blew snow in my eyes,
not  raindrops, and suddenly I was back
from  the opposite coast, back from
the  time when it was you and me and 40 degrees was
cold.

Where  are the good times that I knew we would
have  forever? What imp chose last night, out of
all  the lonely nights, to haunt me with
the  sarcastic glint of your eye and the
warm  sound of your laughter, things owned by
nights  long
gone?

mm
02/12/00
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