To the Greatest Love I've Never Known

by j.c. monterrosa - Capricorn

To The Greatest Love I’ve Never Known
2.13.99

I stand before you, but in spirit,
for you’re nowhere to be found,
and I type these empty words 
that fall to empty walls.
Can I find you? Will I find you?
Time can only tell.
I won’t be swayed by the bleakness
and the words that say I won’t.
I am driven by this passion
for a love I’ve never known.
Yet I follow with my dreams of grandeur
‘cause I feel I’m almost there.
Almost sad, but then not quite,
I find comfort in your being.
If you’re somewhere, and you’re someone
then I guess it’s just a wait.
Listening, all the things 
gracing me with their sounds
Tic-tocking, bells chiming
four sticks and then again.
Sunrise and sunset
High tide, and then low
candelight to warm sunlight
and still no word from you.
Maybe words have left no meaning
in this lovely world of mine
filled with laughter, and with smiles
‘cause the sunshine’s not my own.
Do you wonder why you find me
writing letters though you’re gone?
Maybe gone is not the answer,
maybe here you’ve never been?
Funny how I find redemption
in the thought that you’re not here
For that moment that I find you
just might find me overjoyed.
Do I know you? Do you know me?
Maybe that’s what we should ask.
Childhood, adolescence,
maybe that’s when we first met?
And to think that I may find you
miles and years from those days of old.
I don’t know why I feel 
the urge to write to you
maybe hoping that you’ll read this
in a sometime close to now.
I know your spirit and your beauty
and I don’t doubt they’re beyond compare
so I raise my glass of wine and drink
to the greatest love I’ve never known.

Reason for writing:

    A poem for my wife...oh, wait, I forgot, I'm not married...hell, i don't even have a g/f...arrggghh! lol...    

Birth sign: Capricorn
Date created: 1999-08-28 22:52:26
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:41:20
Poem ID: 53207

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