My last
Love affair
Certainly built
My resistance
To love
But once
I saw
You I
Knew that
No matter
My inoculation
I would
Soon once
Again show
Those gnawing
Symptoms that
Rash that
Flush those
Sweats and
Knew right
There that
You were
Simply contagious
I don’t
Need you
Near just
Need to
Know that
You are
Wherever you
Are that
It’s me
That you
Think about
Or remember
Because it’s
There in
Your heart
That I
Will always
Be closer
To you
Than near
And so
We’ve both
Lost things
And neither
Returned to
Look for
Them knowing
That they
What we’d
Find wasn’t
What we
Lost yet
We found
Each other
And while
As not
Shiny and
New and
With a
Few dings
We are
What we
Are to
Ourselves and
Now to
Each other
And there
In the
Dark a
Smile barely
Seen a
Tap a
Touch searching
Love occurs
Behind you
Beyond your
Eyes it
Follows you
Like a
Shadow appears
On the
Edge of
Sight disappearing
When you
Look look
Not but
Feel in
The darkness
Not for
Beauty but
For comfort
I shall
Gather your
Things in
A box
Placing them
On the
Highest shelf
Far out
Of reach
I promise
To untie
The string
Allowing you
To float
Free and
To be
The balloon
You were
Always meant
To be
And I
Will slip
You into
A bottle
And send
You out
To sea
Allowing someone
New somewhere
Else to
Stumble upon
You just
As did
I many
Years ago
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 