PAD Challenge Day 7: Until We Become Familiar with Love Again

PAD Challenge Day 7: Write a senses poem.

Until We Become Familiar with Love Again

On lonely days like this,

I want to hear you closer

because dialing ten numbers

makes it tough to share the colors

of the day with you.

With you there, me here,

we can’t show and tell 

our true yellow and blue days.

We can only imagine 

the size of the pain 

and the volume of joy.

Can you, meet me halfway

share common sense while we

paint our hearts blissfully red

until our faces and souls are golden?

Can you come closer,

so that I can feed you unconditionally-

Introduce you to the tastings of

healthy loving from my pyramid

of daily spiritual bread,

fruitful pieces of peace,

and delicate servings of trust

saturated in faith and empathy.

Can you come here,

let me warm aloe for

your shattered heart.

Lift a needle onto vinyl records;

loan your heart a new beat

that only we can speak in tongue

and dance our calcium bones to

through hail, sleet, rain, and sun.

Isn’t it common sense that we connect this way?

Carefully come,

let me massage your temples,

prepare your frontal lobe

for a lifetime of beautiful memories,

anoint your forehead with kisses

and whisper vows of truths

in your ear.

I know your soul is living

in a tomb of ashes, for the moment.

But I also know God sent me to

resurrect the flames of your

spirit that is dying

to be reignited again.

Come quick, take my hand,

share a scent with me

whether it's over the delights

of my grandma's recipes

or your cologne and my perfume

practicing poetry,

skin to skin for the first time,

or our sense of self tonguing down

each other’s daydreams and

fantasies into reality.

Can you come?

Come share the outside

of you inside of me until

we become familiar

with love again.

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