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Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

0 posted 2014-05-20 10:36 PM

Let me go back, just for one day.
Back, before responsibility,
when empathy's bulb was buried
deep in the soil of self-absorption.
Let me feel again the freedom of youth
and the flitting heartbeat
of ever-present passion.
Back, when colours held a breathing vibrancy.
A dress, a flower, a ribbon amalgamating
to a pulsing, embracing kaleidoscope
of expectation and desire.

Back, when we were wrapped
in the certain knowledge
that we stood at a portal of wonder,
and everything in our world
was not for sharing.
It was ours, and ours alone.

Back, to summer scents and glory skies,
when days conquered life with consummate ease.
Each ruling with a regal belief
that nothing would ever change.
Back, when one look, one word, one touch,
were vast volumes of devotion.
And we alone understood that we were blessed.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-05-21 05:53 AM

I have been waiting for this first post, Redstart, and it is all I expected it would be. Your sense of regal being as you dream of long ago days is magnificent. The depths you wrote about and the wonder of being so alive sent me back to those days of mine.

~*~ Less depends on the size of the dog in a fight than the size of the fight in the dog. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2014-05-21 06:40 AM

I was taken back as well. But you gave the remembering back that original sense of adolescent ego and pride I had long since forgotten... Thank you for bringing that back to me. Remembering that time before life happened, and I stood straighter is quite a gift.

Lori

wordancer
Senior Member

since 2000-07-30

Posts 809
VA

3 posted 2014-05-21 08:24 AM

oh, if only we could recapture those days without actually back to the angst of that was the was between those amazing moments.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2014-05-21 09:53 AM

If only we could go back and take a bit of wisdom with us. Great write.
Ida

Paula Finn
Member Ascendant

since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

5 posted 2014-05-21 05:53 PM

This is wonderful...

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

6 posted 2014-05-21 08:19 PM

An octave of perfect pitch, lying back in the grass of a summer eve. Fine dining for the senses here.

Forlorn Angel
Member
Posts 143

7 posted 2021-03-17 04:38 AM

Loved this ... I have been in the midst of recapturing all of this lately, great piece here!

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