If we could gather all the kisses we ever kissed, if we could conjure up the memories once shared, if we could answer all the questions we have now forgotten, then sitting on this sofa we could feel our distant lives.
If we had photogtaphs of happiness never taken, if we could play recordings of moans and murmurs we did not tape, if we could laugh again and cry our cries of long ago, we could live again our years of tears and joy as we hold each other on this sofa evermore.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a writer of aphorisms, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.