Separation
for Cy,
07/01/08
I cannot remember the precise moment
You came into my life –
I have the urge to relive how the first time
Heartquakes trembled my body,
Shaking off the sedimentary dust of past men
So that I am reborn again a fertile ground.
The memory escapes me, but I know then,
The dirt I am is solitary uselessness
Without any root holding on me firmly,
Until you immersed your hands across the skin
And map the places where you must sow,
Where we could constantly interflow
To honey. My love,
I can only recall the time we breathe
Through the same lungs, but even the air
Did not become a need if not with you,
How we learned to enter each other’s selves
So easily as a glove, until we can no longer
Discern which part where I begin and you end.
My love, I cannot remember exactly when
You entered my life but I know this much –
Now, I will mark the day I must cease to love you.
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