Imagining a Devotion Series Poem
*** IMAGINING (a Devotion Series Poem) ***
My beloved, do you see my eyes
Approaching near to sweet tears
Whenever your intimate touch
Comes — as you brush my hair
or reassuringly pat me twice —
Before
proceding with the tasks at hand,
Leaving me to sit
here, mere steps away?
And, constantly
I begin to imagine
You standing apart from the hour
And purposefully, resolutely
You pass through the room
Into my vision
Of you returning
Through dimensions
To receive my longing…
Always
Stopping for an instant, a step away,
sensing the impetus
of our decades of love.
You go on to slide between me
and all the glaring lights —-
In slow motion —-
You incline toward me…
To fall over me…
Thus in my imagining, nearly
Every time when I see you
Away in your being
in the somewhere else of sleep,
I will imagine you nearing…
For that gentle touch
Through the walls aound my heart —
Even to the thought of us lying abreast,
Held in our combined warmth
As the rythm of our heartbeats pulse
— the one aside the other —
Tranquil
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(c) sally young eslinger 6/19/2023
Thanks be to God
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