It all comes rushing back
The memories start off soft.
Gentle touches, loving eyes,
The warmth of lips touching.
Then reality bursts through-
Grabs me by the hair.
The anger, the agony
Realizing it's over.
I try to remember
Only the bad segments-
Convince myself
It was good to let go.
But there's still a thought-
Soft candles glowing
Illuminating entwined flesh
Breathing synchronized.
Once we were one.
Once we belonged.
We were part of something
Larger than our sum.
Now ripped apart
Torn at the seams
We cannot, will not
Repair the damage done.
Forever separate entities
Remembering a time
When long ago, united
We shared a destiny
Copyright © 1999 by Noele Creamer
Noele Creamer is a student at California University of PA in the Professional Writing
Program where she also serves as editor of Flipside
magazine and senior literary editor of the university's new literary
and art magazine, CALibrations. Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry has appeared in various campus and
community publications.
NOELE003@aol.com
