I knew you so long ago

And never said

The words

 

Life took a different path

But I thought of

You

And wondered

 

Ages and ages passed

Good times

Bad times

But still I wondered

And wondered

 

Then came a dream

 

You were there

Beautiful, young,

 

Powerful

 

Skin so soft, skin so smooth

Eyes, mouth, endlessly intense

The perfection of illusion

Oh! How I loved!

You

 

And I spoke the words

That I never said

And now never will

 

You replied in kind

Our lips drew together

So close

Love held them, separated

A physical force

Waiting for conclusion

So close

So close

 

But dissolved into reality

 

Oh! Why?

 

Why?

 

And now

Soon

Comes my death

 

And as I lay

Waiting

 

I have only one wish

 

To fall back

Into the dream

 

Our lips will touch

 

And my life will be complete.

 

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