Remembrance

I remember that day in Venice
Boys dropped you on your head
And you broke your tooth
Such crazy things were done in youth
But now those days are gone

I remember your smile, your warmth
Flowing through our hands
On that back-lit night
It felt so wrong, it felt so right
But now the light is gone

I remember how we lived in the moment
No cares about our futures and
Not having a collection of yesterdays;
Having only today

I remember one evening in Paris
An abandoned soul
Waiting in a park
I first saw my collection spill
Just when the doves still
When the city sky freezes grey

I cannot hide from the glare of London
There I reside
But therein all its darkness lies
In all its opposite reason

Opposites repel, opposites attract
And it’s not the wings of the dove that flap
As reality falls through

Each daily wand’ring as a dampened stranger
Leaves all of us
With nothing to find
Except behind such masquerades
Are dancing glimmers of truth

Dancing:
A glimmer of you.


© Martin Slidel 2018