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We have had many discussions concerning how to deal with difficulties

with relationships, with loss of jobs and others that visit us...

 

I dedicate this poem to you.

 

Do you Remember?

 

Do you remember?

When we took two hours together

where we had one?

When we wanted an extra hour out of every day?

an extra dollar every hour?

a little more gravy? a little more sweets?

a little more time? a little more space?

a longer vacation?

a better car? a bigger yard?

more fun and less hardship?

 

Do you remember?

We still craved for more

nothing truly satisfying…

 

Do you remember?

That was how greedy we were…

Because we did not understand

We did not know

where the true craving came from

until we noticed all this meant nothing…

 

Do you remember?

The most difficult to give up

was each other…

Oh! How I longed for your touch!

How I longed for your eyes looking into mine

seeking into me to quench your craving!

How I longed to look into you

to quench my craving!

 

Do you remember?

And it could only be found in our own hearts…

 

Do you remember?

We gave each other back to God?

Willingly!

Willingly we gave our hunger and our thirst!

Willingly we gave up money and pleasure!

Willingly we gave our children!

Willingly we gave our home and our life!

Willingly we gave back time and space!

What was there more to give?

Do you remember?

Do you remember the look of people?

The banks that repossessed our house and our car?

Our friends, our neighbors?

Our own fears and shame thinking we'd done something wrong?

 

Do you remember?

 

Then we saw something we had not noticed before

It had always been there

We could not see it

We were looking elsewhere

 

And tears started rolling down our cheeks

Do you remember?

Tears of disbelief!

And everything we'd believed in

Everything we'd attached ourselves to

was burning

burning!

-- it surprised us --

inside our flesh

the last atom of desire

 

Do you remember?

We felt so foolish?

And so loved

-- for the first time --

And yet we were always loved so

-- we simply did not notice before

 

Do you remember?

 

And in the midst of this new feeling

I saw you and you saw me

And we laughed

-- shocked and blessed and shocked --

Because you and I

 

Do you remember that moment?

 

You and I

had never been apart!

 

Do you remember?

 

What a joke it was!

 

Do you remember?

 

Thank you for being there with me

 

 

Rochester, November 25, 2007

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