In Monterey

We can try to escape. Sooner or later the memory will catch up with us.

        In Monterey

I called you to tell you I was all right. 

I don't remember losing you so much here.

The winter days of Michigan made me sad.

Here in Monterey I never get  cold and the sun appears everyday.

I go to the ocean.

Listen to the sea lions cry.

I don't feel so lonely.

I will stay in California.

The pain is less.

I can't promise to forget you.

But I'm OK.

I'm safe from  the hunger to hold and touch you.

The cold of Michigan winter brings me back to your memory.

The 3000 miles will protect me.

I wonder do you miss me?

The man who tried to make you laugh.

The man who tried to love you.

Here in Monterey.

The pain is less.

Someday we will talk face to face.

Maybe on a summer day.

   Coyote

   1993

Author's Note

Old sweet and bitter memory.

Reviews

[Laura Maidah]

Maybe restructuring and reordering the sentences to promote a smoother connection of ideas. I was distracted and started thinking about your writing process. Any distraction is cause for a revision. Some sentence inversions might to the trick and add a real pop to your poem! As usual, thanks for sharing.

[alan khan]

you've lived a life man. i liked this. short and still very powerful. great work.

[Huggy Bear]

Great poem and very well done as usual:)

[NeverSurrender]

Nice poem. I love poems that feature things like water and cold. I don't really know why but I do. In your poem the words really conveyed emotion. It gave me a few images in my head and that's always nice.

So thank you for a good poem and keep it up!

[beautiful disaster]

This reminds me of my first love. I will be driving down the road and see something that reminds me of him and start crying. Even though in our minds space and time heals a broken heart there is no way to get over the ones you love. The pain always remains and at that point a piece of you has died along with the relationship.

[Missing Part]

this is an amazing Poem very good job

[Dev]

I go to the ocean.
Listen to the sea lions cry.
Really nice comparison here.. I liked reasing this.. Its a good reminder of memories gone by

[Dark Angel]

Aww... That's sad... Too many memories to cover that distance. I know a similar feeling... But I try not to forget...

[Vanessa Macanas]

Great writing. Only if 3000 miles could actually make it easier, maybe with time, but for the beginning of the move the memories are all you can think about because its all you have left. I love your writing! Thank you!

[Poetic Beauty]

I have read this one before. I don't know why I didn't review it but I really enjoyed this poem the first time I read it. You poems always have a bit of lived wisdom to them.

[Abhinav]

Its a great poem about the memories we leave behind...i totally feel the emotions in it....superb stuff
:)))
Abby