Where have you been?
Have you been there
Right in front of me,
In the thin of the blue unseen
Like a blonde hair
Floating on the sea?
Have you been around?
Like change in the back seat
Chips under the sofa
That rattling sound
Like a faraway sheep's bleat,
White curtains in the wind toga
Loose on the clotheslines
Flapping in the wind,
Have you been there all along?
My sadness and wonder
Walked hand in hand
Never did it rescind,
Even if bottle after bottle
The wines
Made me fonder
Of you and your memories a land
Only found song after song,
From the pain
And teary rain
My heart I could not coddle,
Were you there?
Did we share
All along the same breath,
So close will we be until our death?
Did I brush past you?
And the only clue
Was the tingle in the air
And never did I dare
Turn around
At the sound
Of a whisper
Familiar, was it her?
I'd asked many a time
And I failed to find the rhyme,
Like one does to purple,
Were you there in the shimmer
Of a whirlpool?
Like my thoughts a glimmer
To your lingering shadows homage
In the fading summer's mirage...
© okpoet