Limerence

Once on a golf course,

I realized twilight for the first time.

Somewhere against a background

Of blackening-orange -

A nearby caddy was transformed into a silhouette,

A presence not at all uneasy,

Just very different than he appeared at noon. 

 

You opened a door

When you sat under the light

With a cup of red wine in your hand.

The laugh that makes me laugh, riddled with crazy-familiar conversation,

Like a language that we both understand

And never at a loss for words,

Expressive and meaningful,

Even when silence prevails.

Then after a while,

You are this shadow,

This amazing silhouette

On his own green -

More profound than I had ever noticed at noon -

All at once - independent, pensive, fresh and hopeful 

As certain as science,

Yet somehow ethereal - like poetry -

Awaiting the features that arrive with the new day -

And many more new days yet to be,

I promise.

 

My first impulse is to keep you under a bright torch -

Light up that visage of youth forever,

But we both know that I can’t,

And so I shouldn’t.

So many changes

Perspectives,

Noons and twilights

Features in sharp focus, 

And then those wonderful silhouettes -

They will all happen

Just as they should -

As sure as the sun

Appears to move

Across the sky.

 

 

 

Reviews

[Aaron Flood]

Insight in the most unpredictable places...liked it alot