YOUR BEING

 

I choose to live,

and to live always—
neither in the future
nor in the past,
but now.

I drink each moment greedily
before it disappears.
I seize
the whole joy.

I asked you to run with me
beyond our restraints,
like wild, galloping
horses.

What is the point
of any delay?

You say you need time.
You suffer.
You go.

I left nothing between us
for tomorrow.
I took all of you
at once.

You were mine.

I chose to drown
in your love
as long as it was here.

Look closer.

I still feel
the scent of kisses,
your sweet smiling face,
your desire to hope.

Passion.

Cruel time uprooted us,
and still keeps hurting us-
but I won.
I fooled it.

You are near.

You live in my mind
experientially,
as a vision of beauty
that will never
be lost.

COPYRIGHT2012 by Chryssa Velissariou