Two Parallel Worlds

If the memory serves me right

and is untainted by the touch of time

 

and if she is like I recall,

mellow with silence,

 

she really hasn’t changed,

she hasn’t changed at all.

 

Please, if you come by her,

hesitate no further than to contact me straight away,

 

or if you can’t reach me, or find me,

tell her not to avoid the path through forest

 

and that I’m still waiting there

every rainy Sunday morning

 

on the forever abandoned place where

she used to wait for me on the way back home.

 

Tell her to stop crying every other night before

she falls asleep, or when someone mentions my name.

 

It’s been twenty-seven years, so tell me, does she still

smell of cinnamon and apples,

 

do her eyes light up every time she

passes around the corner,

 

does she feel confused every time the spring is young

and the white flowers bloom, but the meadow is empty?

 

After all this time, does she still expect to see me

when the night dies away, sleeping by her side?

 

Does she wake up in half-panic and half-excitement

with sombre hope that she’ll see me return?

 

She will cry. Calm her; she is fragile

and she mustn’t break,

 

so if you see her up by the early dawn

clutching a water kettle with her old, shaky hands,

 

smiling to no-one and to everyone

eyes filled with uncertain kindness,

 

tell her I still love her like I used to,

tell her I miss everything about her

and tell her I’m waiting

waiting in silence, to meet her again.

Reviews

[Alana McGuire]

I'm not going to lie, this is probably my favorite poem that I've read on here in my month and a half or so that I've been on this site. It's so extremely sad and beautiful at the same time. I love the way you describe her so uniquely well. It was no problem awarding you fist place in my contest. :)

[Lucas Grasha]

In honesty, I cried. I can't say a single detrimental thing about this; I'm amazed.

[Leslie Philibert]

Another good one. I like all the work you do. You`ve employed couplets very
well and so got a great tempo into the poem. You`ve employed a nice mixture
of universal feelings and poetic energy.Keep at it.

[A Writer's Curse]

Wow. Very powerful. A captivating tale of the best kind.

[Larry Dyson]

durn you you made me drop a tear or too..very emotional and memorizing piece ..ill keep it in my specials..place..

[screamin'ian]

Wow! This one really makes an impression on me. The compassion behind it is very powerful. I enjoy very much your insight and the way it unfolds in your delivery of the story.

[Sagar Waingankar]

Nice words dear! Your kindness and compassion is to be admired! Love and Light!