ALL BUT FORGOTTEN
His tears


His tears
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But I’m not
Long on formality
I follow her
I take the fall
Slipping down
Behind her
Then beside her
I don’t mind
That she planned
This all along
How can anything
Go wrong at all
When all seems
So right, I ask…
But not all is
As it seems
As I hear a voice
Calling out…
Come now, Alice…
It’s only a dream
Tell this story…
I didn’t want
To say goodbye
She filled my dreams
For what seemed
Forever and more…
Why was it so?
Perhaps I’ll
Never know…
It’s too late to ask
I held on tight…
Perhaps too long
And I never said
“Goodbye”
Although she’d kissed me
Upon her waking
I hadn’t yet moved
So not to let her think
She’d disturbed
My sleep before
I’d had enough
She doesn’t know
For certain that
I’d watched her
As she slept…
Knowing what a
Lucky man I was
To feel her love
So far this is a dream
One that drives me on
From day to day
Waiting…knowing
That she exists
And that she has already
Long loved me as I am
Trying to think about
My earliest memory
I found myself
At loggerheads with
The uncertainty of how
You know time before
That concept is taught
The real uncertainty
Of what came first
Was decided by
Vague remembrances
Only placed in time
By knowing details
Second-hand…
Other things
I remember must
Have come later
When I fell out of a
Second-floor window
Into a bush below
Was I too young
To understand
What had happened?
I remember nothing
But what I was told
It’s a memory…
But not mine
Like clips from a movie
I have images in time…
My sister…10 years older
Loving to be second mama
To her little brother…
A blue stroller with the name
“Taylor Tot” was how she
Paraded me around
The neighborhood
Showing me off to friends
The neighborhood school
With a playground flashes
Into memory…but nothing
Can make me remember
Any action…maybe I
Remember no more
Because of my tender age…
Three or less…but I
Have always known one thing…
I was always special to her
And she was & remains so to me
© 2016 Robert Mihaly
Written from a prompt at #FWF: My Earliest Memory
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