Would You Stay?

A love poem of yearning for a former lover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Would You Stay?

 

My heart yearns for you on Sundays.

Memories of you flood my mind in

various streams and tributaries on that day.

 

I long to hold your hand and run

through the rain and hear the loving

things your voice would say.

 

Your joy and persona

beamed on me like sun's majestic rays.

 

I wish you were here to hold me

to reassure me that everything

in my life without you will be okay.

 

Without your smile and your love

in my life, all of my skies are grey.

 

I long to kiss and roll around,

like we used to when we

were young, to roll in the golden hay.

 

I wonder if I saw you on the street,

one day when I was looking fine

and I caught your eye,

would you stay with me forever and

embrace me with love,

if I asked you

to stay?

 

 

Author's Note

This is a poem about my ex-husband and memories that I have of him on Sundays. Would he stay?

Reviews

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This is one of my favorite poems from you. I love the raw emotions presented as well as the evident vulnerability. The structure of your poem eventually leads to the ultimate question, however, I believe that you have the ability to capture the reader's attention to each and every word until the end- something I think many poets do struggle with.