Do you remember when we stood outside
As the cold wet snow fell down,
Black wool coat increasing weight
As the wetness of tears and glistening drops of ice
We’re enough to melt this moment
Into an empty jar full of memory.
Do you remember when we lay on green grass
Quad days and blankets
Skipping class to just be grounded
And the clouds that drifted
We’re as thick as our thoughts
And the soft blue cotton blanket never thick enough
To cushion the blow as I watched you
Watch her walk away.
Do you remember nights in black light rooms
Giving shades of purple to the pictures
And we would look out and name stars
While Pink Flloyd played a dirge in the background,
How I wished you were there
Yet you laughed without care
Calling me a child,
How someday I’d grow up.
Do you remember how I was learning of love
Of how to cling to a soul that moved
Like the invisible wind,
There one moment then slipping away the next,
How I wanted you to be the mountain
Sturdy and strong to support a branch
To cradle a broken bird,
As you shuddered and crumbled
And I watched so sad as you lost sight of the sun
And the moon and cosmos laughed
For you thought you knew the answer,
Having found it swimming in the dirty water
As the smoke reached out to erase your mind,
I had to walk away, leaving it behind.
I turned and followed my own path,
Leaving the sharp rocks of the roughest trail,
Finally finding love and oceans blue,
The love for love and all of those things
The gift of being true and filled with light,
Those simple things for free,
You never could give to me,
As open and pure as wildflowers
Dividing lonely highways,
Colors of spring and summer,
Fading as we drifted by on our way
With the wind in our hair,
Damn we are so alive when I remember it all,
Just as we still are in this moment.
I reached out to grasp the universe
And it found me with an open heart.
He sits by the sea today below the sun
Toes moving through sand as he searches for gifts,
Pieces and bits as old as history.
Things that make me smile,
Knowing our love flies high like strong winged birds,
And I wait for his return,
Do you remember when.
I was musing earlier about how when younger my expectations were often distorted but when the heart opens and matures, I realize how simple it is, and chastise myself for waiting so long to learn it. The beginning of this post were my college days…so long ago. But today, I miss my love and know he shall read this, giving the gift of a love between two and a smile across miles.
Thanks Neha, so glad you liked it😊 peace and love, K
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how sweet 🙂
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Purple streaks in the white now because I’m growing it long. It’s a wonderful life he’s made for himself, but it is hard to have him and his little family so far away.
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New York , but looking forward to warm. It must be exciting to have a son overseas…I dream to sometime travel there…on the bucket list. Is your hair still purple shades? Or was it blue….knew it was fun.
Kim Laettner
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Holland in Europe (or Oy-rope as we call it in conversations with Son who lives in France)? Or New York? Hope you like Florida. I grew up there and used to teach at UCF.
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Currently Holland but new home will be in Venice FLA…hope this will be the last winter here….I went to school in Cazenovia….lots of fun parties at Syracuse though…many years ago but I can look back and laugh still….hey almost neighbor😊
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I just saw that you live near us…we’re in Syracuse.
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The pic fit my mood today, feeling carefree and wish I were driving with the top down, wind in the hair…ah such bliss. Peace Kat, 💜K
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Flying, loving and enjoying simplicity. Love it, Kim. ❤
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Thanks Daniel, I consider that high praise and I thank you. Glad none of us were ever really alone in our thinking, just naive and once having found the truth of love, flying high ever since.
Namaste, Kim
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nearing fifty but finally enjoying life and love in all of its splendidness…not sure if that’s a word but I suppose it is now 🙂
thanks so much, Kim
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This speaks of my own life too… How superb! A magnificent work!
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You must be near my age…the setting and details are familiar.
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