Pasts & Promises, Allan Deya [beach read txt] 📗

LOVE TEACHES LESSONS THAT WE LEARN BY LIVING

I have said all I can say, all I have to say

To you and to me

I have been all I can be, for you and for me

I have seen yesterday, and pictured tomorrow

As I wade through the day

I have highlighted my faults, resolved to fix them

Accepted your own and promised to share them

We each can be more and will be

Hopefully as one with wiser versions of you and me

After this tide of emotion ebbs

After the darkness and ugliness is spent

We know where we went wrong and appreciate why we did

I am back to understanding your tick

As you get in step with my tock

You are afraid of me I know, and won’t let go

Of the pain and the hurt and the walking away

That I did, that both of us did

It is still too fresh in your mind what I did not do

And what you now cannot

The threat to the heart is still too real

The destruction of the mind is beyond imagining

You look at me and probably wonder

How I can seem the man you remember and not care

That opening up to you could be my deepest source of grief

But that is not it; nothing could be further from it

I walk around like Damocles, with heat just beyond my heart

A heat that can both sear and rear

One that can be a threat of violence

Or a promise of nurturing

It’s not that I am not as fretful as you are

Or even as reluctant to let all the way go

It’s that I believe that it is darkest before the dawn

It’s that I know that after the storm we have been through

Comes the calm in which we now get by through

But more than anything

More than hope and fear

More than pain and dreams

I know that what we are moving into now

If ever we allow ourselves the chance to

Is bigger, brighter, better, bolder and more beautiful

Than anything we could have ever asked or imagine

I BELIEVE IN YOU AND ME.

Publication Date: 12-20-2013

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Dedication:
To Life and Love