Love Poem: How Can That Be
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Written by: Marilene Evans

How Can That Be

HOW CAN THAT BE
  
                      March, nineteen seventy five
                 it was a night, I could never forget.
                     I was in bed reading a book,
             when I noticed the blue curtain moving.

                    Followed by a gush of cold air,
                 coming in from a closed window,
             filled the room and then enveloping me.
            My grandmother Dolores’ face appeared,
                so close to my face and kissed me.

               It was so vivid, so lifelike that I felt
        the tenderhearted kiss she gave me so deeply
       and it would stay in my mind and heart forever.

       How can that be, when she was in the Philippines,
which is thousands of miles away from the United States.
        I got a call the next day that she passed away!


10/1/20      The "Unexplained" Poetry Contest      Carolyn Devonshire