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Only the Beginning...

Taken 1995.

You have never been far from my thoughts.
Not that you haunt them, but somehow you are
Etched in memories bittersweet
From another time, a recurring dream.

You are god-like in standing
For this is my remembrance
And I choose to keep it so in my mind;
A choirboy image locked in adolescent simplicity.

I see, then, the forever boy I think you must be
Never changed from that innocent
But gentle in word and act of strength and kindness.
Eyes pure and true, yet twinkling with impish gaiety.

This eternal youth unswayed
By years of recollection
Stands defiant, refusing to age
Like Greek antiquity fashioned from the finest marble.

I think of you and aqua ink
A declaraation inscribed on my hand
Our names on my palm, enclosed by a heart
And Cupid’s arrow.

How quickly you hurried away
Leaving me to ponder your actions
Alone in a school hallway
Dazed and bewildered.

These are my treasures that
I keep locked in my heart.
Yet I have never stopped wondering
Where life has taken you

So many lifetimes ago…
And I needed to know
Where you’d been and
Who you’d become..

Would I awaken from this dream?
Would the memories remain?
If I dared touch reality
From so far away…

But 45 years is so long to be wondering
And Facebook had cast its spell yet again.
That connection was made and with the stroke of the keyboard
All those years just simply dissolved.

There you were – no mistake
That same choirboy face reflecting a life warm and sweet.
Smiling eyes twinkling back with that schoolboy delight..
And where once was a boy, is a man.

Christmas at my sister, Terri's. Lake Forest, Ca. 2007.