I felt your touch against my shoulder, your lips to my kiss

My tears to your soul

The begging starts, ‘please don’t leave.’

The reality of you gone

Darkness of my soul comes, and tears of falling rain....


The need to wrap my limbs around the touch of yours

You are the one that melts beneath me, in my mind’s eye;

My smile of yesterday is gone now and the pain of love not to last

Only a picture of our love, the memories of endless time

Coming awake to the summer, then winter, spring and fall....


Years and years of melted pain never really knowing

Then one day I find you with a life of your own.

Just to touch your face with my fingertip.

A forbidden love that is now I guess.....


Softly it will come to be, I pray, the long lost love of yesterday

Your rhythm is another for her to know

The year has come and gone that pain that I have felt

No more whispers in my ear, no more love torn words.....


I will sit in this room, living in the past.

No more heartbeat will I hear, only of pain that lasts

If I have regrets or feel inadequate. Or blindness for apology;

To regret that my smile of yesterday was not born today

To believe in second chances, to believe in you....


Our love affair so many so new

To kiss the kiss of yesterday, to hold a hold of today

My existence comes from you I say

Below the colored lights did not pass the test

Sweet songs come from loving you if you sing it sweetly,

You gave me you and you asked for nothing.....


How it must feel to light the world, as you walk safely.

My weeping never stops as I hold you in the darkness of the moon.

In my mind’s eye there you are the torn love that is worn again

Let me fall asleep in side of your touch, through all storms,

As I said in silence,

“Always the smile will be of yesterday and tomorrow has come and gone.”

Debbie Brooks 2014