A pinch of real love

A pinch of real love is all we need

     

   The inner self has to be present

to truly care for someone

    to feel someones touch is temporary

to touch the inner persons emotions is forever

     do any of us know just what is the meaning of true love

  

the first time I saw her was my first breath of fresh air

   

she taught me how to make the scent of a blossom pass through my lungs

             and fill my heart

a simple smile from her sweet face opened the door to my soul

   

The first glimpse of her was burned into my thoughts my heart and my whole soul

          

A strand of hair falling passed her forehead kissed her che and lay asleep on her shoulder

        

a mouth that could only form sounds gentle as a warm wind

             hands soft and heavenly to hold

             and no combination of words are beautiful enough to describe her eyes

 A fleeting moment was all I had to carry my through decades of loneliness

      I looked here and found nothing

      I looked there and was left wanting

      All I found were empty eyes, empty souls, empty words

      Passion is a short moment in time

      Followed by loneliness that can last for an eternity

Fools that we are, we find gold dust and we throw it to the wind

no mater how we try we can never gather it again

     

All i could do for years after 

miss her gentle hand a hand that caressed  and held me tight

If only I could have a brief glance from her, it would fill me for years to come

it would carry me through the darkness of night till the first rays of morning sun

  

 

     today after all these years, the face that bound me is fading from my thoughts

I don't remember the color of her eyes

those eyes! those eyes! beautiful eyes larger that the ocean

like a drowning man I cling to that long lost love

a love that long ago withered like the leaves of fall

those memories are starting to set! set like the sun and replaced by the darkness that follows

my memories! my heart! will last only until the last ray of light has faded

faded hidden behind that ocean that swallows the warmth of sun night after night

leaving us in the cold with no comfort from the dark.

Reviews

[Kelly Scheppers]

It's hard to imagine how you could possibly forget the color of someone's eyes, years after embracing their memory. It's like losing them all over again, bit by bit...their scent, their eyes, even the cognizant sound of their voice and laughter. You've penned this quite well, Peter...I hope love returns to you to stay.

[Peter]

Memories are a two edge sword, they can sustain us or torture us, years pass and then along come nine words that open up that wound, it eats at you because you can not figure out why something is cutting you up, then those fragments foat to the surface, and you remember blue eyes, blond hair, a voice that touched your nerves, but these things are unclear. were the eyes watery blue? or like the sky? was the hair straight? or soft and wavy? the voice would I recognize it if she was sitting in the booth behind me at the coffee shop? As for your last sentence?? I am not a 22 year old man any more so I settled into a quiet life, I will have to say pass.
Thank you for saying that I've penned it quite well, I never wrote poetry before. this is a nice site and I think I will spend more time browsing through, Thank You Kelly

[Kelly Scheppers]

Welcome to the WC, Peter!

[Peter]

Thank you Kelly

[Amy R]

This was written so beautifully, Powerful yet so touching 🌹
Memories that we keep deeply inside our hearts,
hoping it can possibly be reignited.. Life isn't always so easy...
Great write, I look forward to more of your pieces.
-Amy

[Olivia Danielle]

This story really spoke to me. The memories we hold for the people we let into our life and find ourselves falling for. This was really beautiful.

[Peter]

Thank you Olivia I really appreciate your review. I agree with your thoughts completely.

[Lydia Shutter]

Such a powerfully romantic write. "like a drowning man I cling to that long lost love" WOW....the depth of emotion is amazing here. We cling to memories and often make them rosier than they actually were, but they are ours and they comfort us. Beautifully written. Lydi**

[Peter]

You are very good at seeing behind the words. I never thought of it as drowning? but now that you mentioned it?! Is that what drowning feels like?
Thank you for the review. Peter.

[Onlyme]

This was beautifully tender and touching and moving. I was taken away with how wonderful you expressed your Peter.

[Silmara McGarry]

Honest and from the heart of the soul. It is almost like a letter of the chest that all together become a beautiful poem...sad at the end, and still wonderful. I truly love it!
Well done, Peter...And welcome to WC ;-)

[Peter]

I really appreciate your review Silmara. I hope to become as prolific as you at poetry.Thank you.

[Silmara McGarry]

Thank you! And you are very welcome, Peter! :-)

[Barb]

How poignant and heartbreaking; full of loss. I cannot begin to imagine loss on a scale as to pen words of such torment; however, it doesn't seem possible that if I did lose the one I love so dear that I could ever not see their face again when I closed my eyes. It would be that hope, of seeing them in my mind's eye, when I think of them that would carry me forward until I could let them go and regain my own peace of mind. Your poem was very well written, Peter, and if based on true heartbreak, I sincerely hope that you find peace again soon--and love. All the best to you in life, and in your writing -- Barb

[Peter]

you would be surprised how the passing of time, and the different emotions we go through can work on us. we might find something that will ease the hurt, or we might shut off the ability to feel the pain.
The second one was my only choice and it has limited my ability to connect or remember the person I was, let alone the person I wrote it about.
I appreciate your review. I am just here today for the first time, have been reading some of the poetry and find a lot of it is very good, I guess good manners suggest that I i should do the same. Thank You