I Shall Have Loved And I Shall Have Left
I
I have laughed
I have wept
I have loved
And I have left
I have gazed
In early morning at roses
Touching the Universe barely upon the wrist
I have gazed through fog in deepest night
With tears and blood flowing freely from my fist
I have walked lonely roads
Traveled one million time over
And met friend, foe, and lover
Without any safe shelter or cover
I have discovered deeper oceans
Deeper blues
Deeper blacks
While on the run, flying freely from Freedom’s attacks
I have tasted sweated flesh
Against my lips, in dark rooms and places:
Bitter but “fine”
Bitter, but all the more “fine”
And of all the eyes I’ve seen gazing back into mine
A moment unshakable with the Universe at hand,
With its harmonic power, that needs no demands
That Silence...
That Moment...
Yes, I have seen many eyes
But it all comes back to one
A precious pair
Impossible to outrun
II
Whenever I kiss, it shall be compared to your lips
I have no say in it
For you were everything to me
The Universe in specks of dust
Metal dancing with rains of rust
Timeless
Effortless images
Of Freedom’s feathers
Within two lover’s young lust
Perhaps Love
Doesn’t end
Perhaps,
It shatters!
Shards of Emerald, Ruby, and Gold
Pieces to be remembered
Tales to be told
Pieces to be carried
Amongst the starry night
Never forgotten
Shards to be held, and, with the passage of time
Kept close
For the words themselves cannot contain the passion
For which they state
Such as the azure waves
From the sea, cannot seem to stop their break
III
Oh the Sun!
Oh the Moon!
Timeless space
As the sunbird croons:
“Not all is Lost!
Love may leave but Passion is frost
To cling, freeze, and melt away
Until the bright morning of early seasons bring another day
Bring it back to Life!
Shining like a knife
Giving new hopes and new dreams
To the lonely, still sleepily saddened life
Where upon the Shore of Distance
Is writ a new story:
That someone must always have to lose
To, in the end, know Glory!”
IV
The reason I write this for you is for the lovers who have loved,
As I have you
To echo your name in the Endless Hallways of Purest Desire,
For them, the lovers, to come in from cold and feel the fire,
For the ones who love each other
And while gazing
Cannot leave one another
For the lonesome man or woman
So low, so lonely, and doomed to die
That they may undig their shallow earthen grave
And see the sapphire sky
Put plainly
Hope:
Hope for love, hope for life
Hope that everyone shall lead a passionate knowledgeable life
Hope that love is there when the world is ending
And that for each happiness Beginning
There is such unhappiness Ending
V
Oh my lost love
So famously on my mind
Perhaps you’ll read this?
Perhaps you won’t have time?
No one will ever take this from you
It is yours and the Western Wind’s alone
And as stars explode in deeper reaches we cannot explain
And as the rooster sings with tired eyes his faithful refrain
I shall have laughed
I shall have wept
I shall have loved
And I shall have left...
(2013)
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