Let Me Remember You As This

Without a care through summers fun

we both tousled life in splendor

Each played in the beams daylight streams

holding one another tender

 

Above the churning sky had blushed

without a worry of the night

We played on high till day was nigh

as darkness overcame the light

 

The wind from our lives blows by us

marking as time runs out it cries

Filling life's sails with tattle tales

while the dream of our childhood dies

 

The cricket's songs leisurely played

rain tapped the ground with our first kiss

A warm night bathed in cool moonlight

let me remember you as this

 

Tate

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Author's Note

I can't say that this piece is wrapped completely in reality. It was a thought of youth and time I spent with others and still remember. Time changes everything does it not? Young love is a lot like that. We always entrust our future to the winds of fortune. What once seemed like the end turned out to be only the beginning of something much better. So to all of you who are still young remember this from a man who has been there. It may seem like your love is gone. As if everything you dreamed was just that, a dream. These moments are the ones that carve the character that will make you interesting to others in the future. The only ones who truly know what life has in store, are those who have lived it and come out the other end a little wiser. The pain that will seem to accompany young love teaches us to be true to one another. These pains will help you through life. Through memories of these mutual pains, those endured and those imposed by us on others, we learn to respect each others feelings. This will make you a better person. One you too can respect.

Reviews

[Raven Starhawk]

How hypnotic this poem is...I cannot count the ways it affects the soul with its well conceived words. You have a well defined sense of the human condition and this poem is a reminder of excellence.

[Lilly]

The last stanza is beautiful - as is this piece as a whole. Some very lovely imagery in this. I especially liked "Above the churning sky had blushed..."

Yes given time everything changes in someway no matter how much we had wanted it to stay the same... but given time we also grow and see things through different eyes - often realizing all is not lost or that the change is for the better...

Lovely write.

[Dayran]

It's important to remember the positive moments in our life. It serves to affirm the good even when things are falling on us like a ton of bricks. It serves us as our strength. A poem from our memories.

[sweta'karman']

one more tender love side,it's just beautiful.....

[Coyote Poetry]

Photo gave life to the amazing poetry. Deep in our memories. Never lost are memories of new doors open and sweet kisses of youth. Thank you for the excellent poem.
Coyote

[sharonlee]

Sigh.... do we have to have turn our back?

Beautifully expressed Tate

[roarke]

What more can be said? What more can be learned?
That expectation of the beginning of something better doesn't stop with youth, you know that. Ah, character... so important. I dream one day I'll be wise enough to write one stanza as good as Tate, and here he's given us five and even more.

[Arielle Ann]

wow this was full of innocence and selfless care....beautiful!

[Elaenor Aisling]

Very nice, great write! :)